Millions Like Us

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 mans 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 womens war, through a host of individual womens 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