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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

Millions Like Us Womens Lives in the Second World

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 15/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9780141037899, 978-0141037899
      ISBN10: 014103789X
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      History Social and cultural history Military History First World War Second World War

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

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