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100 1 $aTownsend, Alf,$d1935-
245 10 $aBlitz Boy :$ban Evacuee's Story.
260 $aStroud :$bThe History Press,$c2014.
300 $a1 online resource (177 pages)
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505 0 $aCover; Title; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; One Before the War; Two Mum Says It's a Trip to the Seaside; Three Penryn Purgatory; Four Newquay for the Duration; Five Another Move to Pentire; Six Our Final Move; Seven Return to War-torn London; Eight Victory in Europe; Nine Newquay: Sixty-Odd Years On; About the Author; Copyright.
520 $aBlitz Boy is a fascinating recollection of life in the Blitz and of evacuation to Cornwall. Charismatic author Alf Townsend tells the harrowing and touching tale of what it was like for a young inner-city child to suffer the trials of war at first hand. The mass exodus of kids from Britain's major cities in 1940 was unique and the government's hasty organisation programmes left a lot to be desired. It must have been a shock to rural communities to taken in frightened, scruffy, poverty-stricken cases from the poorest areas of Britain's cities. Many of the foster paretns who took in these c.
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650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, British.
651 0 $aCornwall (England : County)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
651 0 $aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
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