Debs at WarAn extraordinary account from firsthand sources of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th century society: the young (17 20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to customs and attitudes that must have seemed