1st Edition

Who Will Take Our Children? The Story of the Evacuation in Britain 1939–1945

By Carlton Jackson Copyright 1985
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million people, mostly children, from the cities to the countryside – and how it affected social life during the war years. It uses hitherto unpublished material from the collections of the Children’s Overseas Reception Board and the Mass Observation Archive.

1. The First Round  2. Doing It Again  3. The Ties That Bind  4. Perils of the Deep  5. Settled In  6. Welcome the Traveller Home

Biography

Carlton Jackson