Millions Like Us

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. Σελίδες: 560, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm