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Author Welshman, John.

Title Churchill's children : the evacuee experience in wartime Britain / John Welshman
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : a child's war -- Evacuation : just another word -- Operation Pied Piper -- The railway children -- Living out of a suitcase -- The official response -- A winter on welfare -- City and countryside -- Spitfire summer -- Victims or vandals? -- One year on -- The long haul -- Reconstruction -- Going home -- Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances
Summary Based on the stories of 13 children and adults, 'Churchill's children' tells the often moving story of the evacuation of school children in Britain during the Second World War, from the perspective of the children themselves as well as the many adults who were caught up in this massive wartime enterprise
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-328) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Evacuation of civilians
Children
Social aspects
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191574436
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