Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War
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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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin (General UK)
- : 01 May 2012
- : 01 May 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Paperback
- : 940.53082
- : Illustrations