Buy this book on-line MANN, JESSICA: : OUT OF HARM'S WAY: The Wartime Evacuation of Children from BritainLONDON.HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING,2005. ISBN 0755311388.
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In June 1940,Britain expected enemy invasion.Despite Churchill's determination to fight 'on the beaches',many parents made desperate efforts to send their families abroad to safety.Nearly half the nation's children were on a waiting list for overseas evacuation and thousands of others had already left for America, Canada,Australia and other distant countries when,on 17 September 1940,the SS City of Benares was torpedoed mid-Atlantic with the loss of 255 passengers,including 84 child evacuees.The great exodus ceased but those already in safety had to spend several years far away from everyone and everything they knew.
In this remarkable book,Jessica Mann, herself a wartime evacuee,describes the experiences of those sent overseas, including Elizabeth Taylor,Angela Lansbury,Countess Mountbatten of Burna, John Julius Norwich and Shirley Williams. She documents their journeys across oceans,reveals how they coped with being away from home and discusses the problems they faced on going back to Britain - what it was like to meet families they had all but forgotten.
Drawing on the memories of many former evacuees and using extensive original testimony,Jessica Mann uncovers an extraordinary and little known side to WW2.
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