Judith Flanders

Out of the frying pan . . .

Stranger in the House: Women’s Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War, by Julie Summers

issue 27 September 2008

  • Stranger in the House: Women’s Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War

    Julie Summers

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 363

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