Waterstones A A 1940s Childhood
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a world war were immense. Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, and many children faced the trauma of being parted from their parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life. But through it all, and afterwards, the simplicity of kids shone. From collecting bits of shot-down German aircraft to playing in bomb-strewn streets, kids made their own fun. Then there was the joy of the second half of the 1940s, when fathers came home and the magic of 'normal life' returned. This trip down memory lane will take you through the most memorable and evocative experiences of growing up in the 1940s. Waterstones A A 1940s Childhood - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780752499505
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780752499505
Author: Esselle
Rating: 5
Review: Liked . But it’s “ middle class” Well dressed well shod kids ..very nice AND It’s kicked me into touch ..thought about how and what happened actually … Not all children wore shoes or even owned them these kids are Sunday best kids Or “museum” images So thought about it …prompted into another look … It mentions seaside …seasides where mothers threw themselves onto children when planes were bombing beaches Raw rhubarb sandwiches ..pinch bread scrump for rhubarb Realistic wartime in bed and bomb dropped on house London’s war
Author: sandra
Rating: 3
Review: Book content really interesting but struggled with the tiny print and the ink was so faint
