Millions Like Us
Women's Lives in the Second World War
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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 ...
©2011 Virginia Nicholson (P)2012 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
"Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic." (Artemis Cooper, 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." (Kathryn Hughes, The Mail On Sunday)
"An acclaimed account of this period... a rich seam of social history." (Cassandra Jardine, Daily Telegraph)
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- Anonymous User
- 31-10-2017
an insight into the life of women during and after
Found it very interesting. mentioned lots women I had heard of or read about. Felt I knew a little of what wartime life was about
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-03-2016
History Comes Alive
An accurate eyewitness account from the women who played a major role in winning not just the battle for Britain but the war for England!
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- Wren
- 06-08-2019
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Look, I really loved hearing most of the information and I thought it was so well researched. The stories were inspiring and amazing and heartbreaking. I also thought the narrator did a great job of making the information easy to listen to. Voices of people were mostly good, though, I really wonder if it may have been better to use a male actor for the men's voices:)
However, it might be helpful for people to know that there is a huge amount of discussion about the disasters of sex and also how the author and other people think men are hopeless and should be blamed for almost everything horrible in the world. If this won't bother you, this is the book for you. Personally, it was a bit extreme for me, and I could have done with about 1/4 of that part.
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