![]() She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex. ![]() ![]() Her books include the acclaimed social history Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, both published by Penguin in 20. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. 'Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic' Artemis Cooper, Evening Standard 'Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, Millions Like Us deserves to be a bestseller' Bel Mooney, The Daily Mail ![]() And how they would never be the same again. Millions Like Us tells the story of how these women loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared how they re-made their world in peacetime. 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. ![]() We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a mans war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. ![]()
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