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02987aim a2200493 i 4500 001 C4D2CB02122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220802012256 007 sd fungnnmmneu 008 220622s2022 nyunnnne f n eng d 020 $a 0063080737 020 $a 9780063080737 028 42 $a 14808844 035 $a (OCoLC)1331591217 040 $a TEFMT $b eng $e rda $c TEFMT $d OCLCQ $d TEF $d RNL $d IKG $d IUK $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3553.H473 $b S95 2022ab 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20220623 100 1 $a Chiaverini, Jennifer, $e author. 245 10 $a Switchboard soldiers : $b a novel / $c Jennifer Chiaverini. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Audio, $c [2022] 300 $a 12 audio discs (14 3/4 hr.) ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 144500 340 $b 4 3/4 in. $2 rda 500 $a Title from container. 511 0 $a Read by Saskia Maarleveld. 520 $a In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing needed operators who could swiftly and accurately connect multiple calls, speak fluent French and English, remain steady under fire, and be utterly discreet, since the calls often conveyed classified information. At the time, nearly all well-trained American telephone operators were women, but women were not permitted to enlist, or even to vote in most states. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army Signal Corps promptly began recruiting them. More than 7,600 women responded, including Grace Banker of New Jersey, a switchboard instructor with AT & T and an alumna of Barnard College; Marie Miossec, a Frenchwoman and aspiring opera singer; and Valerie DeSmedt, a twenty-year-old Pacific Telephone operator from Los Angeles, determined to strike a blow for her native Belgium. They were among the first women sworn into the U.S. Army under the Articles of War. The male soldiers they had replaced had needed one minute to connect each call. The switchboard soldiers could do it in ten seconds. The risk of death was real, the women worked as bombs fell around them, as was the threat of a deadly new disease: the Spanish Flu. Not all of the telephone operators would survive. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Participation, Female $v Fiction. 610 10 $a United States. $b Signal Corps $b Signal Corps $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Telephone operators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women soldiers $z United States $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Audiobooks. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 650 0 $a War fiction. 700 1 $a Maarleveld, Saskia, $e narrator. 941 $a 4 945 $a cdab 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230905010522.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20221124010041.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220809011557.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220802023101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C4D2CB02122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search