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Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War (Hardback)
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Short Description for Millions Like UsWe 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 demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. This title tells the story of the women's war.
Full description- Publisher: VIKING
- Published: 05 May 2011
- Format: Hardback 528 pages
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- Categories: Gender Studies: Women | Social & Cultural History | Second World War
- ISBN 13: 9780670917785 ISBN 10: 0670917788
- Sales rank: 60,316
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Full description for Millions Like Us
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...
