Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World WarLoving Arms examines the war related writings of five British women whose works explore the connections among gender, war, and story telling. Evoking the famous "St. Crispin's Day" speech from Henry V and then her own father's account of being moved to tears on V J Day because he had been too young to fight, Karen Schneider posits that the war story has a far reaching potency. As widely defined and accepted, war stories are men's stories. If we are to