Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War
- ISBN-10
- 014103789X
- ISBN-13
- 9780141037899
- Category
- Nineteen forties
- Pages
- 736
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Virginia Nicholson
Description
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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