Description
A 55 page booklet plus index entitled Wartime Childhood by Mike Brown.
Growing up during the Second World War could be a frightening, strange, or even exciting experience. children who were evacuated often found themselves in very unfamiliar circumstances, whilst those who remained in areas at risk from German air strikes regularly sat in bomb shelters, and had to wear gas masks. Boys could revel in adding parts of downed German aircraft and shrapnel to their collections of conkers and string, but for many children the war brought greater responsibility as their fathers went off to fight. Mike Brown reveals all aspects of wartime childhood, using photographs, objects and ephemera, to stir memories for those who grew up during the war, and to provide younger people with a fascinating insight into life as a child at this time.
Mike Brown is an authority on the British Home Front in the Second World War. He has written several books and acts as a historical advisor for this period.
Published by Shire Library
