Table of Contents

Introduction: A Child's War
1: 'Evacuation': Just Another Word
2: Operation Pied Piper
3: The Railway Children
4: Living Out of a Suitcase
5: The Official Response
6: A Winter on Welfare
7: City and Countryside
8: Spitfire Summer
9: Victims or Vandals?
10: One Year On
11: The Long Haul
12: Reconstruction
13: Back Home: The Return
14: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

John Welshman is the author or editor of five books on twentieth-century British social history and has held posts at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and York. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. He became interested in the evacuation as a postgraduate student, because the sources were so interesting and lively. He has since become an authority on evacuation, with articles in Twentieth Century British
History, the Historical Journal, and the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies.

Reviews

Welshman's effort to combine personal, subjective accounts of the experience of evacuation with the history of evacuation as social policy is worthy and ambitious.
*Penny Summerfield, Cultural and Social History*