Author(s): Phil Robins

History

War Children shows what life was like during the Second World War for the children who lived through it.

What was it life going to school in Nazi Germany, or helping to put fires out during the Blitz?

How did it feel to be evacuated, or to arrive in Britain as a refugee and then be told you were an 'enemy alien'?

Can you imagine runnign for your life as a doodlebug hurtled towards your, or drifting in a lifeboat for eight days in the middle fo the Atlantic Ocean?

In this book, eyewitnesses interviewed by the Imperial War Museum tell you just how it felt to be there.