Helen D Millgate: 2 books

Book cover of Got Any Gum Chum?

Got Any Gum Chum?

GIs in Wartime Britain 1942–1945

by Helen D. Millgate
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009

When the first American servicemen arrived in England in March 1942, the indigenous population greeted their presence with mixed feelings. A certain level of resentment was harbored by the English and expressed by many in the in the well-worn phase of the time "overpaid, oversexed, and over here."...
Book cover of War's Forgotten Women

War's Forgotten Women

British Widows of the Second World War

by Helen D. Millgate, Maureen Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011

The World War II widows were the "forgotten women," largely ignored by the government and the majority of the population. The men who died in the service of their country were rightly honored, but the widows and orphans they left behind were soon forgotten. During the war and afterwards...
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