Young voices : British children remember the Second World War / Lyn Smith ; in association with the Imperial War Museum
2007, 1st edition. London : Viking. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #338231
ISBN: 9780670915934
Physical description: xxiii, 436 p.: ill., facsims., ports.; 24 cm. Notes: Personal accounts from the Imperial War Museum's Sound and Document Archives. Bibliography: p. 417; and index. Contents: 1. The Road to War: 1930s -- 2. War: 3 September 1939 -- 3. Phoney War: September 1939-May 1940 -- 4. The Great Awakening: June-September 1940 -- 5. Evacuation: Second Wave, Home and Abroad -- 6. Disaster at Sea -- 7. In the Front Line: Blitz 1940-41 -- 8. World War: 'The End of the Beginning' -- 9. Wartime: Daily Life -- 10. Wartime: Education -- 11. Wartime: Life Overseas -- 12. Wartime: Work and Service -- 13. 1944: 'The Beginning of the End' -- 14. Victory and Aftermath -- 15. Child of That Time -- Contributors: Sound Archive -- Contributors: Documents. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Children; Biography. World War, 1939-1945; Personal narratives, British. Genre: Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. Summary: Covering a vast area, from the home front to Nazi Europe and Japan, Lyn Smith has compiled a richly diverse and moving collection of testimonies, which reveals the sheer complexity and horror of the war.
Price: €12.95