# 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: Viking
- Medium: audio
- Length: 19 h 58 min
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson, Annie Aldington, Rachel Bavidge, Julie Maisey, Georgina Sutton
- ISBN: 978-06-7092-208-6
- Published: 2012-03-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 19 h 58 min

## Description

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. R ead 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 ...