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Schoolboy`s Wartime Letters: An Evacuu's Life in WWII a Personal Memoir
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This funny, fascinating journal follows the development of a boy and his changing attitudes during WW II from its outbreak in September 1939 to victory in the summer of 1945. It is a memoir based on the original letters - around a hundred and ninety in total - written by the author to his parents and carefully preserved over the years. There are also several contemporary photographs. He was an only child and full of his own selfish needs, vanity, hypochondria, prejudices and unquestioning patriotism. The letters carry strong echoes of 'Just William' and 'Adrian Mole' - 'Health and Safety' was nowhere in sight! There is also a wealth of information about childhood games, hobbies, mock battles, sport, school life and wartime concerns.
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I found it truly extraordinary to be allowed this insight into how it was to be a boy then and live through those years... I found your letters hugely enlightening. Thank you. Michael Morpurgo, Author of War Horse.; Dinky toys and Spitfires, fags and flying bombs. A personal and poignant insight into a Wartime Childhood. (The) experiences were certainly different to mine and all the more interesting for that! Michael Foreman, award-winning author of 'War Boy'; The Imperial War Museum is eager to acquire this collection of original letters. Ellen Parton, Archivist, Imperial War Museum