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  • Britain's Wartime Evacuees

    The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There

    by Gillian Mawson ...
    Series series Voices from the Past
    With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial bombing. The fear of invasion the following year resulted in another mass evacuation from the coastal towns.Hundreds of thousands of school children, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evacuees

    Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front

    by Gillian Mawson ...
    This oral history shares firsthand accounts of Britain's child evacuees who were sent to live away from home at the outbreak of WWII.On the outbreak of the Second World War, Britain initiated Operation Pied Piper, evacuating more than three million civilians out of areas considered prime targets for bombing. It was the largest ever transportation of people across Britain, and most of those moved ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guernsey Evacuees

    The Forgotten Evacuees of the Second World War

    by Gillian Mawson ...
    In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel Islands were occupied on 30 June - the only part of British territory that was occupied by Nazi forces during the Second World War. Most evacuees were transported to smoky industrial towns in Northern England - an environment so very different to their ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rhymes and Remembrance

    by Gillian Mawson ...
    Throughout the course of the Second World War, around 3 million British people were evacuated. Gillian Mawson has interviewed 600 evacuees, including mothers and teachers who travelled with the children to take them to safety. During the war, some evacuees wrote poems which described their experiences of leaving home, the evacuation journey and what it was like to be 'chosen' by local families at ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • When the Children Came Home

    Stories of Wartime Evacuees

    by Julie Summers ...
    A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of children evacuated during WWII and the families they left behindOn 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper began 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 ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • How We Lived Then

    History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A

    by Norman Longmate ...
    Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual's experience. The problems of the ordinary family are barely ever mentioned - food rationing, clothes rationing, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Liverpool's Children in the Second World War

    by Pamela Russell ...
    This is the untold story of Liverpool's children in the Second World War. Whilst everyone is familiar with the tales of evacuees who were rushed out of the cities once the bombs started falling, many of us are unaware that many stayed behind, either by choice or necessity, as the city of their childhood disintegrated and burned around them. In the words of those who experienced the Liverpool Blitz ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916

    by Mick O'Farrell ...
    Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the rising were actually fired near Portlaoise and not in Dublin or indeed that both sides issued receipts: the rebels for food, the British for handcuffs. It features ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Forgotten

    The Great War and Our Modern Memory

    by Neil Oliver ...
    There are 37,780 First World War memorials in Britain, listing names from all walks of life - estates, villages, places of work. They stand as landmarks to a defining period in British history - and yet one which is in danger of slipping away from popular memory.NOT FORGOTTEN is a revealing look at the untold stories that lie behind these lists of names - stories of the impact of World War One on ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Barmy Britain - Bizarre and True Stories From Across the Nation

    by Jack Crossley ...
    A hilarious compendium of all that's weird and wonderful about life in the British Isles - the eccentric, bizarre bureaucracy and outright oddity reported over the last year by the nation's newspapers, including: Guardian headline, 'Man with false leg hit with toilet lid.'; The Astrological Magazine, 'announces that it is to cease due to unforeseen circumstances.' Jack Crossley spent some 40 years ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Out of Harm's Way

    by Jessica Mann ...
    In June 1940 Britain expected enemy invasion. Despite Churchill's determination to fight on the beaches, many parents made desperate efforts to send their children abroad to safety. Thousands left for America, Canada, Australia and other distant countries.In this revealing new book, Jessica Mann, herself a wartime evacuee, looks at the experiences of those who were sent away to a foreign land ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • All Quiet on the Home Front

    An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First World War

    by Richard van Emden, Steve Humphries ...
    A "fascinating" look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War ( World War One Illustrated).The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades.Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus