Evacuees of the Second World War
During the last days of peace in 1939 nearly two million people, most of them children, were evacuated from British cities, towns and ports to the countryside, or across the Atlantic to the USA and Canada. Whole schools were evacuated together and found themselves billeted in large country houses. Others were sent off individually or in small groups to whoever had space to put them up. It was a time of great upheaval and the transition from city life to countryside often proved extremely stressful.This is a concise history of British evacuation during the Second World War, including the unimaginable upheaval suffered by the inhabitants of the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7478-0745-2
- EAN: 9780747807452
- Produktnummer: 17712265
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 56 S.
- Masse: H20.7 cm x B14.5 cm x D0.6 cm 150 g
- Abbildungen: Illustrations
- Gewicht: 150
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Mike Brown is an authority on the British Home Front in the Second World War. He has written several books and acts as a historical advisor for this period. He is also the author of the new Shire title Wartime Childhood (Shire 2009).
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