Little Girl Lost
By (Author) Barbie Probert-Wright
By (author) Jean Ritchie
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
1st September 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Second World War
Modern warfare
True stories of heroism, endurance and survival
Relationships and families: advice and issues
European history
940.5540092
Paperback
464
Width 110mm, Height 178mm, Spine 28mm
254g
Two sisters. A broken childhood. A heartbreaking journey. The powerful second book from Richard & Judy's TRUE competition. Two sisters. A broken childhood. A heartbreaking journey. The extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable ... In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds of miles from their mother, news of the approaching army left them confronted with an impossible choice- to face invasion, or to flee on foot. Eva, aged nineteen, was determined to find her mother. For Barbie, twelve years younger, the journey was to be more perilous but, spurred on by her sister's courage and her desperate desire to be reunited with her mother, she joined Eva on a journey no child should ever have to endure. Over three hundred miles across a country ravaged by a terrible war, they encountered unimaginable hardship, extraordinary courage and overwhelming generosity. Against all the odds, they survived. But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed ...
Incredible * Sunday Express *
amazing story * Daily Mail *
compelling reading * The Good Book Guide *
Barbie was born in Germany in 1939. She moved to the UK in her early twenties as a student, married an Englishman, and has lived here ever since.