Penny Starns

Oceans Apart (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of Overseas Evacuees in World War Two

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From May 1940 many British parents moved their children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. Over 200,000 applications had been made by the time the scheme closed just four months later, and these 'Seavacs' as they became known had a variety of experiences. After weeks at sea and then a new life thousands of miles away, letters home took up to 12 weeks to reach their destinations and many of these children were totally cut off from their families in the UK. This book reveals in heartbreaking detail the unique experiences of Seavascs, and their surprising influence on international wartime policy, used as they were as an attempt to elicit international sympathy and financial support for the war effort.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750954723
• Artikelnr.: 40408308

Autorenporträt

Penny Starns has a PhD in the history of medicine from the University of Bristol and is an established historian and writer who has written about many of the female heroines of the twentieth century. She is the author of Odette: World War Two's Darling Spy (2009), Surviving Tenko: The True Story of Margot Turner (2010) and Blitz Families: The Children who Stayed Behind (2012), all published by The History Press.