When the Children Came Home: Stories of Wartime Evacuees

Author:   Julie Summers
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Ltd
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9781847398765


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 March 2012
Format:   Paperback
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When the Children Came Home: Stories of Wartime Evacuees


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On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper bgan to place the children of Britain's industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe. 1.5 million children, pregnant women and schoolteachers were evacuated in 3 days. A further 2 million children were evacuated privately; the largest mass evacuation of children in British history. Some children went abroad, others were sent to institutions, but the majority were billeted with foster families. Some were away for weeks or months, others for years. Homecoming was not always easy and a few described it as more difficult than going away in the first place. In When the Children Came Home Julie Summers tells us what happened when these children returned to their families. She looks at the different waves of British evacuation during WWII and explores how they coped both in the immediate aftermath of the war, and in later life. For some it was a wonderful experience that enriched their whole lives, for others it cast a long shadow, for a few it changed things for ever. Using interviews, written accounts and memoirs, When the Children Came Homeweaves together a collection of personal stories to create a warm and compelling portrait of wartime Britain from the children's perspective.

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Author:   Julie Summers
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:   Simon & Schuster Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.276kg
ISBN:  

9781847398765


ISBN 10:   1847398766
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 March 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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'It is a remarkable collection of stories...a rich and moving book...time and again, I found myself so moved by passages in the book that when I tried to read them out to my wife, I had to keep pausing and take deep breaths. As ever, the tales of pure kindness are the most powerful of all' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 20/3 'The story of the evacuees and their wartime experiences is the subject of a brilliant new book' Daily Express 28/3


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Julie Summers is a bestselling writer, researcher and historian. Her books include :Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine; a biography of her grandfather, the man who built the 'real' bridge over the River Kwai, The Colonel of Tamarkan, Stranger in the House and When the Children Came Home,a social history of servicemen returning to their families from the Second World War. She lives in Oxford.

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