War children : The Second World War in their own words / selected by Phil Robins.

Robins, Phil, compiler
Imperial War Museum (Great Britain). Department of Sound Records, publisher

London : Scholastic, 2005.

272 pages. ; 22 cm.

Originally published: as Under fire. 2004.
Published in association with the Imperial War Museum.

Using taped interviews from the Imperial War Museum's extensive Sound Archive, Phil Robins has gathered together this compelling collection of first-hand accounts from people who grew up during theSecond World War.As well as British children's stories of evacuation and the Blitz, this book also includes memories from survivors of the Holocaust in Europe and from Germans who as children witnessed the near-total destruction of their country. Illustrated with many contemporary photographs, and including a timeline of the War and an index, Under Fire provides a vivid insight into childhood experiences of wartime.

043996315X (pbk)
9780439963152

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