No Time To Wave Goodbye

Language: English

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1989

0747500835 / 9780747500834

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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint. * Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Bloomsbury.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, Gilt title to spine. No Bumps or Rubs to edges or corners, Slight bumps to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, colour photographic cover, Considerable shelf wear, some tears and chips, slight loss at head and tail of spine. ACC.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions, some pencil annotations to text. No tanning. VG* Illustrations: 16pp. B/w and photos.* Pages: 228 pp. text. No Index at rear.* Within hours of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, children were being evacuated out of the cities into the countryside in a carefully planned operation. For all these children, evacuation was an emotional experience; for some it was deeply traumatic, yet others discovered the pleasure of living in the country and formed lasting friendships. Here, in their own words, are the personal accounts of evacuees, both famous and unknown, written in reponse to advertisements placed in newspapers all over the world. Many of them speak here for the first time and snapshots of the children both then and now are included, as well as letters written by children to their parents in the cities. The introduction is by one-time evacuee Michael Caine and the author himself was also evacuated and brings his own experiences to bear on this exploration of a phenomenon that dramatically changed so many children's lives. A GOOD copy with considerable wear to dust jacket and some pencil inscriptions in Chapters 5 & 6.*. …

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Title
No Time To Wave Goodbye
Author
Wicks, Ben Caine, Michael
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication year
1989
Condition
VG/ACC
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0747500835
ISBN 13
9780747500834
Edition
n Reprint.
Seller catalogs
Biography, Social History, World War II

Cocksparrow Books

Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

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Cocksparrow Books is a small on-line second hand book store selling for the last 25 years following the closure of our small bookshop in Wadhurst, East Sussex. We specialise in non-fiction and hard to find titles in a number of fields. We also sell early impression fiction in VG condition avoiding more recent best sellers and airport editions. Our condition notes are as detailed as possible to allow purchasers to fully appreciate what they can expect when they buy. We are open to queries and will do our best to respond quickly to text messages and e-mails. Our offerings may not be the cheapest but if you are looking for a positive outcome to a purchase on-line, do consider ordering from us.…

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