Join us for a discussion of this month's book, Switchboard Soldiers by Jennifer Chiaverini. New members are always welcome! Copies of the book may be available at the Ask Desk.
Synopsis: In 1917, three women are recruited as a telephone operators—aka switchboard soldiers—to help American forces communicate between troops as bombs fell around them. A bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I— the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory.