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Stranger in the House - Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War (Paperback, Ed)
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Stranger in the House - Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War (Paperback, Ed)
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'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these
questions for almost the whole of my life' From 1945, more than
four million British servicemen were demobbed and sent home after
the most destructive war in history. Damaged by fighting,
imprisonment or simply separation from their loved ones, these men
returned to a Britain that had changed in their absence. In
Stranger in the House, Julie Summers tells the women's story,
interviewing over a hundred women who were on the receiving end of
demobilisation: the mothers, wives, sisters, who had to deal with
an injured, emotionally-damaged relative; those who assumed their
fiances had died only to find them reappearing after they had
married another; women who had illegitimate children following a
wartime affair as well as those whose steadfast optimism was
rewarded with a delightful reunion. Many of the tales are moving,
some are desperately sad, others are full of humour but all provide
a fascinating account of how war altered ordinary women's lives
forever.
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