What to Watch Now 'World on Fire' Season 2 is Finished

If you're hungry for more stories and information from the World on Fire series, look no further. From Polish resistance to British women's changing roles, and the role of soldiers from the British Empire, there is lots to explore, and there are aspects of wartime life that the series barely touched. If you thought Robina Chase was ripe for something to keep her busy and out of her son's business, she would almost certainly have been one of those bossy middle-class women who won the war.

By mid-1943, almost 90 per cent of single women and 80 per cent of married women were working in factories, on the land or in the armed forces. Over half a million women served in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), and an additional 80,000 served in the Women's Land Army which provided agricultural labor to British farmers. Others flew unarmed aircraft, drove ambulances, as Lois did in Manchester, and served as nurses. Like many aspects of wartime life, serving the country was both a necessity and a success of propaganda. The British embraced wartime life and wartime hardships, although possibly with not as much enthusiasm for rationing as the Ministry of Food would have wished. In addition to volunteer work, women also had to take the time to queue to buy food and what wasn't rationed might not be available. Propaganda films, shown at the movies, encouraged families to grow their own vegetables, compost, keep healthy, dig for victory, salvage and recycle.