Millions Like Us
- Author Virginia Nicholson
- Narrator various
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 19 hours and 58 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre First World War, Gender studies: women and girls, Modern warfare, Second World War, Social and cultural history, War and defence operations.
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What to expect
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Virginia Nicholson's Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War. A special multi-voice recording featuring five actresses that bring to life the hundreds of personal testimonies, diary entries and books that make up this superb study. Read by Patience Tomlinson, Annie Aldington, Rachel Bavidge, Julie Maisey and Georgina Sutton.
In 1942 Cora Johnston is grieving over the death of her young husband, torpedoed in the Atlantic; Aileen Morris is intercepting Luftwaffe communications during the siege of Malta - and Clara Milburn, whose son was captured after Dunkirk, is waiting, and waiting ...
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.
In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's war, through a host of individual women's experiences. She tells how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared; how they re-made their world in peacetime. And how they would never be the same again ...
Critics Review
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Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic
Evening Standard -
A deeply moving account of female courage both at home and overseas during the six brutal years of war…the joy of Virginia Nicholson’s book is the way she has plaited scores of individual stories into a richly textured account of the many forms that female courage can take. This story belongs to us all
The Mail On Sunday -
An acclaimed account of this period… a rich seam of social history
Daily Telegraph -
Ambitious, humane and absorbing
Spectator -
Where Nicholson scores over other histories and memoirs is that her vivid narrative is set firmly in the context of the social conventions of the time…this lovely book is poignant, hilarious and inspiring
The Times
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