The biography of Mildred Harnack, the only American woman to have been executed for treason against Germany during World War II. With her husband, Mildred was a founding member of the Red Orchestra, an intelligence group that transmitted messages of resistance with the use of contraband radios.

Born in the slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus was brought up in extreme and often cruel poverty. Later, left a widow while she was still in her twenties, she had to give her four children into the care of Dr Barnardos homes. It took her eight years of troublesome work and determination to achieve an adequate standard of living before she was allowed to have them back. In Her People and Where There's Life, the author told the story of her life up to the return of her children. In All My Days she writes about her life in wartime Birmingham, coping with bombing, keeping her jewellery business going, and later, of her marriage and life over the last 40 years. Interspersed are heart-rending revelations of the lives of her parents and older sister.

The author recounts her nearly sixty-year involvement in British journalism, and describes how public attitudes toward women and the elderly have changed.

The author recounts her nearly sixty-year involvement in British journalism, and describes how public attitudes toward women and the elderly have changed.

Recounts the life of the American poet, and traces her involvement in the socialist movement

The author shares her memories of Flanagan, her stepmother, and describes her years in the theater, including director of the Federal Theatre

The first biography of Gertrude Richardson (1875-1946), A Reconstructed World reveals her key role in the development of feminism and pacifism in England and Canada and her remarkable accomplishments as both an activist and a writer.

Arranged in A-to-Z format, more than 100 entries detail Anthony's life and role in the reform movements that consumed her for six decades. This work features end-of-entry bibliographies, a separate section of excerpted letters and documents -- including unpublished ones -- a chronology of Anthony's life, and a general index.

A charismatic stage and screen actress; a model whose beauty inspired some of the most arresting images of the 20th century; a visionary photographer; a revolutionary with deep commitments to communism; a woman whose life, loves and death were controversial; Tina Modotti (1896-1942) was all of these. Her life was one of almost unimaginable glamour, scandal and turmoil.