11 Group Operations Room, Uxbridge In my last blog I wrote about women in World War II, and how the war proved to be the most important single event along women’s long (and still continuing) march toward equality. When I began writing the Breaking Point series I knew...

World War II was the decisive event that advanced women from their traditionally subservient, predominantly domestic role in society, into their dramatically more even modern role. (It is true that during the immediate postwar period women were expected to return to...