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Podcast: BFBS Sitrep
Episode: EXTRA - Trailblazing women ‘going with the boys’ in WW2
Description: The histories of World War Two were largely written by men, because they were almost exclusively the ones who experienced it at the front lines.But a handful of remarkable women defied official bans, and went to the battlefields as war reporters.In this extra edition of BFBS Sitrep we hear at length from Judith Mackrell=about her new book ‘Going With The Boys’ =, which tells the stories of six of these women war reporters.From risking execution to abandoning lunch with Ernest Hemingway to get the scoops, Judith tells Kate Gerbeau how thei...