Welshman, J: Churchill's Children
(Sprache: Englisch)
Tells the moving story of evacuation during WWII, with the personal stories of 13 children and adults involved. Also looks at the impact the evacuation had on shaping the attitudes in the post-war world, covering everything from reconstruction to state intervention.
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Tells the moving story of evacuation during WWII, with the personal stories of 13 children and adults involved. Also looks at the impact the evacuation had on shaping the attitudes in the post-war world, covering everything from reconstruction to state intervention.
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Introduction: A Child's War ; 1. 'Evacuation': Just Another Word ; 2. Operation Pied Piper ; 3. The Railway Children ; 4. Living Out of a Suitcase ; 5. The Official Response ; 6. A Winter on Welfare ; 7. City and Countryside ; 8. Spitfire Summer ; 9. Victims or Vandals? ; 10. One Year On ; 11. The Long Haul ; 12. Reconstruction ; 13. Back Home: The Return ; 14. Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index
Autoren-Porträt von John Welshman
John Welshman is the author or editor of five books on twentieth-century British social history and has held posts at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and York. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. He became interested in the evacuation as a postgraduate student, because the sources were so interesting and lively. He has since become an authority on evacuation, with articles in Twentieth Century BritishHistory, the Historical Journal, and the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Welshman
- 2010, 354 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 20,4 cm, Leinen, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199574413
- ISBN-13: 9780199574414
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Englisch
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Welshman's effort to combine personal, subjective accounts of the experience of evacuation with the history of evacuation as social policy is worthy and ambitious. Penny Summerfield, Cultural and Social History
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