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Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949

Категория: Non-fiction (English), Audiobooks (English)

Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949

Author: Virginia Nicholson
Publisher: BBC Radio 4
Genre: memoires
Duration: 70 min
Reader: Fenella Woolgar
Quality: 64 кбит/c, 44100 Гц, моно
Size: 31 mb
Format: mp3
Language: English

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 ...
Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences. As their stories unfold we discover how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared.

Episode 1:
The conflict begins, and thirty-seven year old Frances Faviell learns to administer first-aid, and Lorna Bradey, serving as a nurse in France, witnesses the horror of Dunkirk first hand.

Episode 2:
A ship is hit by a torpedo, and Mary Cornish's terrifying account of the hours and days that followed is recalled.

Episode 3:
Women enter the workplace in ever increasing numbers.

Episode 4:
Rumours and speculation about a second front gather pace, and Doris Scorer is transferred from the aircraft factory to the woodwork shop, where she starts making gliders.

Episode 5:
As the celebratory atmosphere of VE day fades, many women are left wondering what the future holds.

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Автор(ы): Virginia Nicholson

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