Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War
by:
Julie Summers (author)
A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War - often after years of separation, during which their men, and the women themselves, had changed irrevocably.
A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War - often after years of separation, during which their men, and the women themselves, had changed irrevocably.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781416526841 (1416526846)
Publish date: 2009-07-06
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 363
Edition language: English
Funnily enough, I read this book last even though it was the first one that Summers wrote on the subject. Stranger in the House focuses on the men returning from the war and the effects that the war and separation from hearth and home had on themselves and the women in their lives. In the early 20th...
"STRANGER IN THE HOUSE: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War" is made up of multi-layered stories spanning generations of the adjustments women in Britain had to make upon the return of their husbands or sweethearts from war. Many of these men had served in the military in pl...
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