Out of Harm's Way by Jessica Mann
In June 1940 Britain expected enemy invasion. Despite Churchill's determination to fight on the beaches, many parents made desperate efforts to send their families abroad to safety. Nearly half the country's children were on a waiting list for overseas evacuation and thousands of others had already left for America, Canada, Australia and other distant countries when, on 17 September 1940, the SS City of Benares was torpedoed mid-Atlantic. The great exodus ceased but those already in safety had to spend several years far away from everyone and everything they knew. In this revealing new book, Jessica Mann, herself a wartime evacuee, looks at the experiences of those who were sent away to a foreign land, often unaccompanied, and asks how they coped with being away, and also how they found life back in the UK on their return. Drawing on memories of many former evacuees, including Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley Williams, and using extensive original testimony, Jessica Mann builds up a moving portrait of a lost generation.
Out of Harm's Way is a splendid piece of social history, detailed in a human-interest way, rich with anecdotes (Mann has been clever at not just recording personal stories, but marshalling them), full of documentation and underpinning; and it is sometimes very moving- Scotsman
Jessica Mann is a crime novelist and journalist. In 1940, at the age of two, she was evacuated, first to Canada and later to America, returning home three years later. She studied archaeology at Cambridge and law at the University of Leicester. She lives in Cornwall with her husband, the archaeologist Professor Charles Thomas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780755311385 |
| ISBN 10 | 0755311388 |
| Title | Out of Harm's Way |
| Author | Jessica Mann |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2005-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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