Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War

by VirginiaNicholson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2012

  $4.21

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2012

  $14.12

  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.