Title: Blitz Boy
Description: Blitz Boy is a fascinating recollection of life in the Blitz and of evacuation to Cornwall. Charismatic author Alf Townsend tells the harrowing and touching tale of what it was like for a young inner-city child to suffer the trials of war at first hand. The mass exodus of kids from Britain's major cities in 1940 was unique and the government's hasty organisation programmes left a lot to be desired. It must have been a shock to rural communities to taken in frightened, scruffy, poverty-stricken cases from the poorest areas of Britain's cities. Many of the foster paretns who took in these c.
Subjects: Childhood and youth, World War, 1939-1945, Evacuation of civilians, Children, British Personal narratives, Social life and customs, HISTORY, Western, Manners and customs, Murder, great britain
Places: England, Cornwall (County), Great Britain, Cornwall (England : County), London (England), Europe, London
People: Alf Townsend (1935-)
Time periods: 20th century