Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum
eBook - ePub

Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum

Children's Voices from the Second World War

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum

Children's Voices from the Second World War

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

  1. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. DECLARATION AND PREPARATION
  4. EVACUATION I, HESITATION AND CONFLAGRATION
  5. THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ
  6. EVACUATION II
  7. ADAPTATION
  8. PRIVATION
  9. OCCASIONS AND CELEBRATIONS
  10. FOOD – BUT HARDLY GLORIOUS!
  11. EDUCATION
  12. TOYS AND ENTERTAINMENT
  13. HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE
  14. A HEDGEHOG CALLED DOODLEBUG AND OTHER SNIPPETS OF DAILY LIFE IN WARTIME
  15. FEAR & LOSS
  16. D-DAY, DOODLEBUGS AND THE DEMI-DIASPORA
  17. VICTORY, DEFEAT AND HOMECOMING
  18. AFTERMATH
  19. EPILOGUE
  20. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  21. RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING