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In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women’s Second World War, through a host of individual women’s experiences.
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.
Millions Like Us tells the story of how these women loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared; how they re-made their world in peacetime. And how they would never be the same again …
‘Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, Millions Like Us deserves to be a bestseller’ Bel Mooney, The Daily Mail
‘Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic’ Artemis Cooper, Evening Standard
Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her books include the acclaimed social history Among the Bohemians – Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out – How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, both published by Penguin in 2002 and 2007. She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex.
Publisher : Penguin
Publication date : 15 Mar. 2012
Language : English
Print length : 560 pages
ISBN-10 : 014103789X
ISBN-13 : 978-0141037899
Item weight : 383 g
Dimensions : 12.85 x 3.3 x 19.86 cm
