Oceans Apart

Stories of Overseas Evacuees in World War Two

Penny Starns (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2014
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9011-3 (ISBN)

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Oceans Apart

Penny Starns

2022

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From May 1940 the Children’s Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. The scheme was extremely popular, and over 200,000 applications were made within just four months. In addition, thousands of children were privately evacuated overseas. The ‘sea-vacs’, as they became known, had a variety of experiences. After weeks at sea they began a new life thousands of miles away. Letters home took up to twelve weeks to reach their destinations and many of these children were totally cut off from their families in the UK. Most found their new way of life to be a positive one in which they were well cared for; for others it was a miserable, difficult or frightening time as they encountered homesickness, prejudice and even abuse. This book reveals in heartbreaking detail the unique experiences of sea-vacs, and their surprising influence on international wartime policy, used as they were as an attempt to elicit international sympathy and financial support for the British war effort.

Penny Starns has a PhD from the University of Bristol and has lectured in history at Cambridge, London, and Bristol universities. Her new research into overseas evacuees was the subject of a successful BBC Radio 4 program series. She is the author of "Blitz Families: The Children who Stayed Behind," " Odette: World War Two's Darling Spy," and "Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner."

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2014
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7524-9011-7 / 0752490117
ISBN-13	978-0-7524-9011-3 / 9780752490113
Zustand	Neuware