{"product_id":"9780141037899-millions-like-us","title":"Millions Like Us","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWomen's Lives in the Second World War\u003cbr\u003eWe 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 demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. This title tells the story of the women's Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Millions Like Us\u003c\/i\u003e Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMillions Like Us \u003c\/i\u003etells 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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, \u003ci\u003eMillions Like Us \u003c\/i\u003edeserves to be a bestseller' Bel Mooney, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic' Artemis Cooper, \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her books include the acclaimed social history \u003ci\u003eAmong the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSingled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Penguin in 2002 and 2007. She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30351793389665,"sku":"9780141037899","price":13.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35515112_dcd5c6b7-2ec3-4383-840b-428c141ada20.jpg?v=1753909725","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141037899-millions-like-us","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}