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Oceans Apart
Penny Starns
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Description for Oceans Apart
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From May 1940 the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. The scheme was extremely popular, and over 200,000 applications were made within just four months. In addition, thousands of children were privately evacuated overseas. The `sea-vacs', as they became known, had a variety of experiences. After weeks at sea they began a new life thousands of miles away. Letters home took up to twelve weeks to reach their destinations and many of these children were totally cut off from their families in the UK. ... Read more
From May 1940 the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. The scheme was extremely popular, and over 200,000 applications were made within just four months. In addition, thousands of children were privately evacuated overseas. The `sea-vacs', as they became known, had a variety of experiences. After weeks at sea they began a new life thousands of miles away. Letters home took up to twelve weeks to reach their destinations and many of these children were totally cut off from their families in the UK. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752490113
SKU
V9780752490113
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99-10
About Penny Starns
Penny Starns has a PhD from the University of Bristol and has lectured in history at Cambridge, London, and Bristol universities. Her new research into overseas evacuees was the subject of a successful BBC Radio 4 program series. She is the author of Blitz Families: The Children who Stayed Behind, Odette: World War Two's Darling Spy, ... Read more
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