Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children from Britain
Publishing Details
Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children from Britain
By (Author) Jessica Mann
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
13th April 2005
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Second World War
Modern warfare
Social and cultural history
Age groups: children
940.53161
Physical Properties
352
Width 161mm, Height 34mm, Spine 242mm
696g
Description
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 including their dangerous journeys across U-boat-ridden oceans, and asks how they coped with being away, and also how they found life back in the UK on their return. Drawing extensive original research and on memories of many former evacuees, including Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley Williams, and using , Jessica Mann builds up a moving portrait of a lost generation.Reviews
Out of Harm's Way is a splendid piece of social history, detailed in a human-interest way, rich with anecdotes (Mann has been clever at not just recording personal stories, but marshalling them), full of documentation and underpinning; and it is sometimes very moving. - Scotsman
Author Bio
Jessica Mann is a crime novelist and journalist. In 1940, at the age of two, she was evacuated, first to Canada and later to America, returning home three years later. She studied archaeology at Cambridge and law at the University of Leicester. She lives in Cornwall with her husband, the archaeologist Professor Charles Thomas.
