Blitz Kids: The Children's War Against Hitler - Hardcover

Sean Longden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849013624 ISBN 13: 9781849013628

Publisher: Constable, 2012

Synopsis

Going beyond the familiar stories of children in wartime, usually dominated by evacuation, Longden deals with children as active participants in the Second World War. He tells the stories of child soldiers who lied about their age to enlist, but also of the Royal Navy's 14-year-old boy buglers serving on battleships, teenagers in the Merchant Navy, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides helping victims of the bombing, and the children who stayed in the cities during the Blitz.

About this title

Review:

...a slice of real life that cuts across the more sanitised and detached narratives that historians, myself included, too often present as 'proper history'...a rich, human book...sympathetic and sometimes shocking account. (Richard Overy, Literary Review)

Interesting and comprehensive (Juliet Gardiner, BBC History Magazine)

reading these stories is a humbling and unforgettable experience. (The Tablet)

Book Description:

The untold story of Britain's children in the Second World War both at home and on the front line.

About this edition

• Publisher: Constable
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849013624
• ISBN 13: 9781849013628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560