- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Viking (5 May 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670917788
- ISBN-13: 978-0670917785
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 151,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 )
Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, Millions Like Us deserves to be a bestseller (Bel Mooney The Daily Mail )
Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic (Artemis Cooper Evening Standard )
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 (Edwina Currie The Times )
An acclaimed account of this period... a rich seam of social history (Cassandra Jardine The Daily Telegraph )
Ambitious, humane and absorbing (Anne Chisholm Spectator )
Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, Millions Like Us deserves to be a bestseller (Bel Mooney The Daily Mail )
Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic (Artemis Cooper Evening Standard )
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 (Edwina Currie The Times )
An acclaimed account of this period... a rich seam of social history (Cassandra Jardine The Daily Telegraph )
Ambitious, humane and absorbing (Anne Chisholm Spectator )
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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 Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, Millions Like Us deserves to be a bestseller -- Bel Mooney The Daily Mail Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic -- Artemis Cooper Evening Standard 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 -- Edwina Currie The Times An acclaimed account of this period... a rich seam of social history -- Cassandra Jardine The Daily Telegraph Ambitious, humane and absorbing -- Anne Chisholm Spectator
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a big book, at over five hundred pages long, including the source notes. But this should not put any potential reader off. Every page provides compelling insights into the reality of women's lives during and immediately after WWII. The voices of the fifty individual women interviewed and the honesty of their recollections, leap off the page and are tremendously involving. Additionally, Virginia Nicholson has filled out the background with some terrific research, that reads every bit as well as the best reportage of the period.The strength of the book lies in its depiction of the lives of a cross section of otherwise ordinary women, thrust into the Land Army, the factories and the military, or simply trying to keep family life going, often while their sons, husbands and lovers were off fighting or at sea. A mesmerising read, that I was sorry to finish.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This period of history is emotive, frightening and a period we need to learn from. Not just from the details of war and death, but the every day privations, loneliness and fear coupled with support of each other. This book describes it all - all those wonderful women - our Mums and Grans.
48 of 52 people found the following review helpful
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The focus on women's lives during the Second World War is a welcome one. The book is full of evocative and intensely personal stories that bring the period alive for those of us who were born decades after it ended but knew people who were involved in it. It's a great read too and gave me a fresh and moving insight into what it was like to live through such a momentous period in history.
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