Children in the Second World War
Title | Children in the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Herbert-Davies |
Publisher | Grub Street Publishers |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2017-04-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1473893585 |
“Stunning photographs” and firsthand accounts propel a book that “brings together the memories of more than 200 child survivors of the Blitz” (Daily Mail). It was not just the upheaval caused by evacuation and the blitzes that changed a generation’s childhood, it was how war pervaded every aspect of life. From dodging bombs by bicycle and patrolling the parish with the vicar’s WWI pistol, to post air raid naps in school and being carried out of the rubble as the family’s sole survivor, children experienced life in the war zone that was Britain. This reality, the reality of a life spent growing up during the Second World War, is best told through the eyes of the children who experienced it firsthand. Children in the Second World War unites the memories of over two hundred child veterans to tell the tragic and the remarkable stories of life, and of youth, during the war. Each veteran gives a unique insight into a childhood that was unlike any that came before or after. This book poignantly illustrates the presence of death and perseverance in the lives of children through this tumultuous period. Each account enlightens and touches the reader, shedding light on what it was really like on the home front during the Second World War.
Children of the World War II Home Front
Title | Children of the World War II Home Front PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Whitman |
Publisher | Lerner Publications |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2000-12-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781575054841 |
Explores the experiences of children living in the United States during World War II, including writing V-mail to soldiers, participating in air raid drills, planting Victory Gardens, buying stamps for war bonds, and gathering cooking grease and scrap metal for making bombs.
V for Victory
Title | V for Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Stan Cohen |
Publisher | Pictorial Histories Publishing Company |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
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Tells of the Amerian efforts to provide equipment for World War II and tells of the situation in America at the time.
You Choose: World War II on the Home Front
Title | You Choose: World War II on the Home Front PDF eBook |
Author | Martin William Gitlin |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2012-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1620650177 |
It's December 1941. The United States has just entered World War II. How will you help your country fight for its freedom? Will you: Help keep the country's economy going as a young mother in the work force? Try to fit into society as a wounded African American veteran? Help end prejudice against Japanese citizens as a 12 year old California boy?
The Homefront
Title | The Homefront PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | Putnam Publishing Group |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | United States |
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Includes primary sources on defense workers, women during the war, conscientious objectors, scrap metal collection and recycling, racial issues on the homefront, and civil defense.
V is for Victory
Title | V is for Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Whitman |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822517276 |
Describes life in the United States during World War II, discussing such activities as civil defense, the Japanese relocation, rationing, propaganda, and censorship.
The Forgotten Generation
Title | The Forgotten Generation PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa L. Ossian |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826219195 |
Explores the effect of the challenges of World War II on American children and teenagers.