Home FiresBy: Julie Summers The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford) Away from the frontlines of World War II, in towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their countrys war effort. As members of the Womens Institute, an organization with a presence in a third of Britains villages, they ran canteens and knitted garments for troops, collected tons of