# Millions Like Us

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- Book: [Millions Like Us](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-nicholson/millions-like-us) ([Millions Like Us.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-nicholson/millions-like-us.md))
- Authors: [Virginia Nicholson](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-nicholson)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-974-9
- Published: 2011-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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 ...