Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children from Britain - Hardcover

Mann, Jessica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755311388 ISBN 13: 9780755311385

Verlag: Headline, 2005

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Book by Mann Jessica

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OUT OF HARM'S WAY is a passionate book, full of anguish as well as indignation, and often very moving (John Preston, Sunday Telegraph)

Out of Harm's Way is a splendid piece of social history, detailed in a human-interest way, rich with anecdotes (Mann has been clever at not just recording personal stories, but marshalling them), full of documentation and underpinning; and it is sometimes very moving. (Scotsman)

This is a fascinating account, not only of the children and of their journeys, but of the moral climate of the period. It is a balanced, finely nuanced, comprehensively researched book about a forgotten aspect of the civilian experience of the war. Neither the evacuees nor the reader could ask for a better chronicler than Mann (Cressida Connolly, Daily Telegraph)

A moving and remarkable story (Western Mail Service)

A voyage of discovery... Mann has done her homework. The book is jammed with accounts of evacuees' experiences (Peter Cross, Sunday Express)

With such a trove of material to draw upon, she's written a rich and detailed history... The accounts Mann has collected are endlessly fascinating... Mann's book makes for a read that is illuminating and sobering, riveting and sad (Herald)

A fascinating book... Jessica Mann has done an excellent job in drawing together accounts by dozens of evacuees and weaving them into an absorbing narrative with plenty of contemporary questions... OUT OF HARM'S WAY is a splendid piece of social history, detailed in a human-interest way, rich with anecdotes, full of documentation and underpinning; and it is sometimes very moving... Mann's witness deserves a distinguished place in 20th-century history (Anthony Thwaite, Evening Standard)

A splendid piece of social history, detailed in a human-interest way, rich with anecdotes (Mann has been clever at not just recording personal stories, but marshalling them), full of documentation and underpinning; and it is sometimes very moving (Scotland on Sunday)

Jessica Mann's fascinating account... documents the experiences of ex-evacuees, both in their overseas lives and in their returns 'home'... This splendid account of what happened to a limited number of children in the Second World War provides us with a unique and valuable historical document (Literary Review)

This book is a voyage of discovery (Sunday Express)

Reseña del editor

In June 1940 Britain expected enemy invasion. Despite Churchill's determination to fight on the beaches, many parents made desperate efforts to send their children abroad to safety. Thousands left for America, Canada, Australia and other distant countries.

In this revealing new book, Jessica Mann, herself a wartime evacuee, looks at the experiences of those who were sent away to a foreign land including their dangerous journeys across U-boat-ridden oceans, and asks how they coped with being away, and also how they found life back in the UK on their return. Drawing extensive original research and on memories of many former evacuees, including Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley Williams, and using , Jessica Mann builds up a moving portrait of a lost generation.

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• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0755311388
• ISBN 13: 9780755311385
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352