Growing up in the Second World War

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    • Fyson, Nance Lui

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Growing up in the Second World War

Nance Lui Fyson

Batsford Academic and Educational, 1981

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Bibliography: p. 68

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Nance Fyson describes, in this book, the lives of British children from all different classes during World War II. She has drawn on memories of wartime children, contemporary newspapers, photographs and letters of evacuees to reveal the hardships, disruptions, separations and injuries caused by the war. Other books by the author include "Growing up in the Eighteenth Century" and "Growing up in Edwardian Britain".

Table of Contents

  • The war comes
  • bombings and shelters
  • evacuees
  • foreign soldiers and prisoners of war
  • schools and education
  • work and helping the war effort
  • family and home life
  • food and drink
  • clothing
  • health
  • transport
  • holidays, sports and entertainments
  • toys and games
  • books and newspapers
  • mischief and crime
  • the war ends.

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