Fighting on the Home Front

Kate Adie provides a compelling account of how women’s lives changed during World War One - Irish Tatler

If it is strong, successful, independent women you want, you can’t do much better than Kate Adie, who has tackled the place of women during the First World War in her excellent book Fighting on the Home Front - The Big Issue

Some of the detail is delicious, like the women’s football… Throughout it all, Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book definitely worthy of her heroines. - The Big Issue

This fascinating, very readable book provides a complete wartime women’s history, but Adie also picks out faces among the anonymous ‘battalions of women who saw their duty as service to others’. - Discover Your History

This is history at its most celebratory… The book is chatty, personal and packed with plenty of anecdote. - Telegraph

Kate Adie draws on her own experience as a war reporter to illuminate her narrative. - The Spectator

presents a well-researched history of how the role of women changed during the war…. Adie charts this effectively. - Sunday Times

Kate Adie became the BBC’s chief news correspondent in 1989, and has reported from war zones around the world. She has won numerous awards including three Royal Television Society awards, the Bafta Richard Dimbleby Award, and the Broadcasting Press Guild’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting. She was awarded an OBE in 1993.

Kate Adie presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4 and is the author of four bestselling books.