MILLIONS LIKE US - WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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 ...