Author:Virginia Nicholson,Patience Tomlinson,Annie Aldington,Rachel Bavidge,Julie Maisey,Georgina Sutton
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Virginia Nicholson's Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War. Aspecial 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 ...
Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic
—— Artemis Cooper , Evening StandardA 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 SundayAn acclaimed account of this period... a rich seam of social history
—— Cassandra Jardine , Daily TelegraphAmbitious, humane and absorbing
—— Anne Chisholm , SpectatorWhere 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 TimesA powerful portrait of one of the world’s most troubled and troublesome countries [and] a fascinating, behind-the-scenes account of recent American foreign policy by a leading official. . . . A must-read combination for anybody interested in Korea, east Asia, or global security more generally
—— Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign AffairsCha demonstrates an intimate familiarity with the regime’s contradictions... The thesis is clear: the world’s most closed-off state needs to open up to survive, but breaking its hermetic seal may well precipitate its demise
—— The New YorkerAn up-close, insightful portrait... The Impossible State is a clearheaded, bold examination of North Korea and its future
—— Washington PostThis is a useful book on how much of the outside world sees North Korea, and what North Korea sees of the outside world
—— Good Book Guide
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