Cecil Green thought his foster home was wonderful, but wasn't so favourably impressed by the billeting procedure: I'm still in touch with my foster mother, but the system was like Russian roulette. We went from the railway station in a ...
By this time I wanted my Mummy and Daddy and to be back in that little terraced house all together again. Later, in a strange cold bed at the end...
A spellbinding novel about family loyalty and love pushed to the limits of endurance, No Time to Wave Goodbye is Jacquelyn Mitchard at her best.
The author was one of 2 million children evacuated from British cities to the countryside at the outbreak of World War II. Wicks has collected the personal memories of 8000 evacuees.
Quickly, she Googled No Time to Wave Goodbye. There were absolutely tons of stories, lots of them about winning the Oscar. One was a story about what happened to one of the guys who made the movie. His brother's little baby girl was ...
Within hours of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, children were being evacuated out of the cities into the countryside in a carefully planned operation. For all these children,...