Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War
- ISBN-10
- 0141969741
- ISBN-13
- 9780141969749
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-05-05
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Virginia Nicholson
Description
In 1942 Cora Johnston is grieving over the death of her young husband, torpedoed in the Atlantic; Aileen Morris is intercepting Luftwaffe communications during the siege of Malta - and Clara Milburn, whose son was captured after Dunkirk, is waiting, and waiting ... We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women - in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's war, through a host of individual women's experiences. She tells how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared; how they re-made their world in peacetime. And how they would never be the same again ...
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Other editions
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- 1997-01-01
- 265 pages
- Paperback
- Virago Press
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