by Virginia Nicholson - £9.99 Penguin Books Ltd (2012)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780141037899 | ISBN 10: 014103789x
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...
(Price & availability last checked: July 2019)
In booklists: Women's History - 20th Century, World War II, Women and War & Peace,
In categories: History & Biography, Peace & Human Rights, Feminism & Women, Changing the World,
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