Evacuees of the Second World War

by Mike Brown

During the last days of peace in 1939 nearly two million people, most of them children, were evacuated from British cities, towns and ports to the countryside, or across the Atlantic to the USA and Canada. Whole schools were evacuated together and found themselves billeted in large country houses. Others were sent off individually or in small groups to whoever had space to put them up. It was a time of great upheaval and the transition from city...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747807450
• ISBN13: 9780747807452
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Shire Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.7" x 8.0"