Author Description

"Nearly 6.000 women worked making shells, bombs, landmines and torpedoes at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Rotherwas, Hereford during the two World Wars. It was dirty and dangerous wor. At least 29 died a violent death at what was Britain's oldest, and largest, explosives filling plants... marks a peroid in British history when women coped with advbersity inside and outside the factory... Compiled from interviews with former workers, and presented as told"--Publisher's description.