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Blitz BoyAlf Townsend
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Blitz Boy

177 pagesFirst published 20141 edition
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Blitz Boy is a fascinating recollection of life in the Blitz and of evacuation to Cornwall. Charismatic author Alf Townsend tells the harrowing and touching tale of what it was like for a young inner-city child to suffer the trials of war at first hand. The mass exodus of kids from Britain's major cities in 1940 was unique and the government's hasty organisation programmes left a lot to be desired. It must have been a shock to rural communities to taken in frightened, scruffy, poverty-stricken cases from the poorest areas of Britain's cities. Many of the foster paretns who took in these c.

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  • Other · English · 2014
    The History Press · 177 pages · 9780750959063
Childhood and youthWorld War, 1939-1945Evacuation of civiliansChildrenBritish Personal narrativesSocial life and customsHISTORYWestern