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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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Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War
2009, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Stranger in the house: women's stories of men returning from the Second World War
2009, Pocket
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2008, Windsor
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Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War.
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