Millions Like Us Av Virginia Nicholson

<p>In<i> Millions Like Us</i> Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women''s Second World War, through a host of individual women''s experiences. <br><br>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. <br><br><i>Millions Like Us </i>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 ...<br><br>''Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, <i>Millions Like Us </i>deserves to be a bestseller'' Bel Mooney, <i>The Daily Mail</i><br><br>''Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic'' Artemis Cooper, <i>Evening Standard</i><br><br>Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in