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About this book
Throughout six years of conflict, beginning 3 September1939, military manoeuvres, bombs and exhortations to greater dedication to the War Effort became the normality for children. For the young, this was a time of great excitement. Imagine the thrill of Anderson Shelters built in back gardens, concrete blocks and barbed-wire sprouting on beaches, soldiers and tanks in the streets, the Battle of Britain and those spectacular dogfights, the Blitz and masses of shrapnel to collect, searchlights lighting up the night sky, American servicemen appearing and their inexhaustible supplies of chewing gum! From Dunkirk to D-Day, through Doodlebugs to Victory, there was hardly a dull moment and remarkably little fear for children as they learned, collected and played under these bizarre circumstances.
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Table of contents
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- INTRODUCTION
- DECLARATION AND PREPARATION
- EVACUATION I, HESITATION AND CONFLAGRATION
- THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ
- EVACUATION II
- ADAPTATION
- PRIVATION
- OCCASIONS AND CELEBRATIONS
- FOOD – BUT HARDLY GLORIOUS!
- EDUCATION
- TOYS AND ENTERTAINMENT
- HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE
- A HEDGEHOG CALLED DOODLEBUG AND OTHER SNIPPETS OF DAILY LIFE IN WARTIME
- FEAR & LOSS
- D-DAY, DOODLEBUGS AND THE DEMI-DIASPORA
- VICTORY, DEFEAT AND HOMECOMING
- AFTERMATH
- EPILOGUE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING