Can I come home, please?
By: Phil Robins
Contributors: Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781407109039
Subjects: Evacuation of civilians; Personal narratives; Juvenile literature; Children; World War, 1939-1945
Description: Anecdotes describing daily life as a child during Second World War - from going to school in Nazi Germany, to helping put out fires during the Blitz. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
Table of contents: title: We lived in Hitler's Germany (Germany: 1933-1938); title: There's going to be a war (Germany: 1938-1939); title: What a strange holiday (Britain: 1-3 September 1939); title: No-man's-land (Britain: September 1939-May 1940); title: Closed in (Poland: 1939-1941); title: Twenty-one miles (Britain: May-June 1940); title: On the seas and in the air (Britain: July-September 1940); title: When the bombing started (Britain: September 1940-May 1941); title: Taken away (Poland: 1941-1943); title: If trees could talk (Auschwitz: 1942-1944); title: Losses on all fronts (Britain and Germany: 1943-1945); title: Ruins (Germany: 1945).