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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141969749
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 528

Millions Like Us

Women's Lives in the Second World War




One of the greatest untold stories of British history - the Women's War of WWII and the 6 million British women who helped remake the Britain we live in today

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 ...

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141969749
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 528

About the author

Virginia Nicholson

Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After studying at Cambridge University she lived in France and Italy and then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her first book, Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden (written in collaboration with her father, Quentin Bell), was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother, the painter Vanessa Bell.
Books published by Penguin include Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 and Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War. She is married and has three children.

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Praise for Millions Like Us

Praise for Singled Out: This is a ground-breaking book, richly nuanced with titbits of information, insight and understanding

Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

Such an important story, tremendously well researched. Vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude

Lynne Truss, The Telegraph