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
