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100 1 $aLongden, Sean.
245 10 $aBlitz kids /$cSean Longden.
264 1 $aLondon :$bConstable,$c2012.
300 $axvii, 541 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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505 0 $aIntroduction : London, 1930s -- The coming of war -- Should they stay or should they go? -- A phoney war? -- Eruption : May 1940 -- London's burning -- The water babies -- The Blitz spreads -- Heroes and villains of the Blitz -- Boy soldiers -- Going to sea -- Flyboys -- Fighting back -- The world turns -- Merchantmen and boys -- Boys behind the wire -- A boy's life on the ocean wave -- The boys on the home front -- The good-time girls -- The children of Bethnal Green -- In every port ... -- Ready for war -- The boys in Normandy -- The return of the Blitz -- To the bitter end -- The new order : post-war Britain.
520 $a"From the bomb-torn streets of Britain during the Blitz, to toiling on the freezing seas in the Merchant Navy during the Atlantic Convoy, [British] children were on the frontline during the Second World War. In Sean Longden's ... retelling of the conflict, he explores how the war impacted upon a whole generation who lost their innocence at home and abroad, both on the battlefield and the home front"--Jacket.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 481-498) and index.
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