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Millions Like Us : Women's Lives in the Second World War - Virginia Nicholson

Millions Like Us

Women's Lives in the Second World War

By: Virginia Nicholson

eBook | 5 May 2011

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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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Such an important story, tremendously well researched. Vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude
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Non-FictionSociety & CultureSocial GroupsGender StudiesGender Studies: Women and GirlsHistorySpecific Events & Topics in HistorySocial & Cultural HistoryMilitary HistorySecond World WarFirst World War HistoryGeneral & World History

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