About the Author

Lucy Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. She is Deputy Political Editor of The Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster on the BBC and Sky News.
Previously she was Chief Political Correspondent, and then Defence Editor of The Times, and has reported from across the world, including Brussels and Washington, as well as Afghanistan, Iraq and the Arctic.
Her first book, Emily wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette, was published in 2013.
She lives in London with her husband.

Reviews

‘Riveting… Stories that are not only fascinating in themselves, but contain the sort of detail that would only strike those present at the time.’
THE TELEGRAPH REVIEW ‘In all the hundreds of books written about the Second World War, there is a curious lack of information about the role of women. In these series of intimate interviews with some of the last survivors, Lucy Fisher closes the gap. From pilots to land girls, nurses to radio operators, plotters to Downing Street insiders, she hears from some of the remarkable women who helped win the war that defined modern Britain. An important contribution to our recent history.’ ANDREW MARR ‘Unsung, and until now unacknowledged, Lucy Fisher tells the story of stalwart yet unassuming women who contributed in obtrusive ways to Britain’s victory in World War Two. Land girl, wireless operator, secretary in the Cabinet war rooms, plotter in the Wrens, paraphraser at Bletchley Park: these women talk of their important, even dangerous lives, setting the record straight. This is an absorbing and important footnote to the history of World War Two.’ JOAN BAKEWELL ‘One of my favourite reads of 2021. Wonderfully written, Women in the War captures the voices of ten extraordinary veterans of the Second World War whose stories take us from Bletchley Park to military aircraft, to busy English hospitals and a Blitz-torn Belfast. Women in the War is by turns uplifting, nerve-wracking, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny. It is also a story of finding freedom amid fear. The courage and tenacity of these women left me in awe.’ GARETH RUSSELL