num_pages: 320
description: In an intergenerational keepsake volume witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten.The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died and the map of the world was redrawn. More than seventy years after peace was declared children interviewed family and community members to learn about the war from people who were there to record their memories before they were lost forever. Now in a unique collection RAF pilots evacuees resistance fighters Land Girls U.S. Navy sailors and survivors of the Holocaust and the Hiroshima bombing all tell their stories passing on the lessons learned to a new generation. Featuring many vintage photographs this moving volume also offers an index of contributors and a glossary.
language: English
title: Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today
publisher: Candlewick Press