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Oceans Apart - Stories of Overseas Evacuees in World War Two (Paperback)
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Oceans Apart - Stories of Overseas Evacuees in World War Two (Paperback)
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List price R402
Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
You Save R74 (18%)
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From May 1940 the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move
children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and
New Zealand. The scheme was extremely popular, and over 200,000
applications were made within just four months. In addition,
thousands of children were privately evacuated overseas. The
'sea-vacs', as they became known, had a variety of experiences.
After weeks at sea they began a new life thousands of miles away.
Letters home took up to twelve weeks to reach their destinations
and many of these children were totally cut off from their families
in the UK. Most found their new way of life to be a positive one in
which they were well cared for; for others it was a miserable,
difficult or frightening time as they encountered homesickness,
prejudice and even abuse. This book reveals in heartbreaking detail
the unique experiences of sea-vacs, and their surprising influence
on international wartime policy, used as they were as an attempt to
elicit international sympathy and financial support for the British
war effort.
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