Millions Like Us: Women's Lives In The Second World War

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  • : $30.00 NZD
  • : 9780141037899
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  • : 01 May 2012
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  • : 01 May 2012
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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...