A Child's War

A Child's War

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  • Author: Mike Brown
  • Publisher: The History Press
  • ISBN: 0752475908
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 134

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a war ever since they had come to power in 1933. To British children it was an altogether different matter. Children all over Britain were deeply affected by the war: many were separated from their parents by evacuation or bereavement; all had to 'make do and mend' with clothes and toys; and some even died while contributing to the war effort at home. In this moving and often amusing account, Mike Brown describes what life was like on the Home Front during the war from a child's point of view. His fully illustrated narrative includes details of evacuation, rationing, coping with gas masks and air raids, entertainment and the important - and often dangerous - roles of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. This photographic history pays tribute to the generation of girls and boys who grew up under the shadow of the Second World War.


Growing Up In A War

Growing Up In A War

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  • Author: Bryan Magee
  • Publisher: Random House
  • ISBN: 1407015311
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 400

This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being taught the facts of life. It goes on to tell the story of the Second World War as seen through a child's eyes. Growing Up in a War nostalgically evokes the atmostphere of wartime England, the community spirit of a society before television, where very few had cars or telephones. A kid from the East End, he won a scholarship to one of the country's ancient public schools. During the school holidays, he returned to London and the air raids, the doodlebugs and V2 rockets. With the war over, Bryan's school sent him to a Lycée in Versailles, and he explored the Paris of those post-war years. Then, back in England, he tumbled into his first love affair. The book comes to an end with his call-up into the army, and his unexpected posting to the School of Military Intelligence. Growing Up in a War is a stunning autobiography and account of Britain during an extraordinary period of history, by the winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for autobiography.


Growing Up in the Civil War 1861 to 1865

Growing Up in the Civil War 1861 to 1865

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  • Author: Duane Damon
  • Publisher: Lerner Publications
  • ISBN: 9780822506560
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 74

Presents details of daily life of American children during the period from 1860 to 1865.


Growing Up in 1940s War-Torn England

Growing Up in 1940s War-Torn England

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  • Author: Joyce Holgate DeMille
  • Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
  • ISBN: 1489700269
  • Category : London (England)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 91

Not yet eighteen years of age, I was allowed to leave the office early before the nightly bombing began in earnest. Walking down the street on my way to the railway station, suddenly I found myself high up on a spiked metal fence outside an office building. An angry air-raid warden yelled at me, "What are you doing climbing up there when an air raid is in progress? Why aren't you in that shelter on the other side of the street under that eh, eh ..." Building, he was about to say, when he saw that it was no longer there, just a huge cavity where the large office building with the shelter in the basement had been. Many workers were killed there. Then he turned his attention back to me as I was clamoring to be helped down. "Why are you up there?" he exclaimed in irritation. Mad as hell, I asked him how did he think I got up there by myself, hurting as I was and afraid I would soon be undressed, the iron spike of the fence having pierced the collar of my coat, and it was a long fall to the pavement. Needless, to say I was as surprised as he was. How did I get there then?


Growing Up in World War II, 1941-1945

Growing Up in World War II, 1941-1945

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  • Author: Judith Pinkerton Josephson
  • Publisher: Lerner Publications
  • ISBN: 9780822506607
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 76

Recounts the experiences of a typical childhood during World War II, including work, play, and educational activities, and identifies the struggles felt with regard to the war.


Growing Up In War Zone, and Struggles of Life

Growing Up In War Zone, and Struggles of Life

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  • Author: Alfred Labeja
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1326622145
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36


What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

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  • Author: Sabine Reichel
  • Publisher: Hill & Wang
  • ISBN: 9780809096855
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

Born in the immediate post-war period, the author describes her gnawing feelings of guilt arising from her German heritage and her attempts to come to terms with this


Growing Up Naked

Growing Up Naked

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  • Author: Mc-Anthony Keah
  • Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
  • ISBN: 9781608133345
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 56

In Liberia the civil conflict that lasted for a little over a decade not only tore down the country and broke families apart, it destroyed the lives of thousands of children and left them with wounds deeper than the physical eye can see. Like most of the African continent and elsewhere in some parts of the world, little boys and girls were taught to be killers. In Growing Up Naked: The Untold Stories of Children at War, Mc-Anthony Keah recreates the events and captures the story of the inner pain of child soldiers. In a powerful voice using fictional characters, the author brings together the victims (child soldiers), the researcher (Canadian student) and the world (conference participants) to explain what it means for the children and the implications for the world.


German War Child

German War Child

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  • Author: Christa Blum Mercer
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781893597075
  • Category : Children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

History from life experience. The OTHER side of World War II through the eyes and ears of an Aryan child, who cheered Hitler before he ruined her life. A collection of short stories about a child from Kiel who suffered the ravages of war on her home, school, and, most of all, her family. Vintage photos by the Blum family.


Growing Up America

Growing Up America

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  • Author: Susan Eckelmann Berghel
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press
  • ISBN: 0820356638
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself.