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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 ...Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780670917785
eBay Product ID (ePID)99950756
Product Key Features
Number of Pages528 Pages
Publication NameMillions like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, Zoology, History
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
AuthorVirginia Nicholson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Weight882 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorVirginia Nicholson