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Mixing It - Diversity in World War Two Britain (Paperback, 1)
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Mixing It - Diversity in World War Two Britain (Paperback, 1)
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During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all
over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles,
and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British
Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became
more diverse than it had ever been before. Through diaries,
letters, and interviews, Mixing It tells of ordinary lives pushed
to extraordinary lengths. Among the stories featured are those of
Zbigniew Siemaszko - deported by the Soviet Union, fleeing
Kazakhstan on a horse-drawn sleigh, and eventually joining the
Polish army in Scotland via Iran, Iraq, and South Africa - and
'Johnny' Pohe - the first Maori pilot to serve in the RAF, who was
captured, and eventually murdered by the Gestapo for his part in
the 'Great Escape'. This is the first book to look at the big
picture of large-scale movements to Britain and the rich variety of
relations between different groups. When the war ended, awareness
of the diversity of Britain's wartime population was lost and has
played little part in public memories of the war. Mixing It
recovers this forgotten history. It illuminates the place of the
Second World War in the making of multinational, multiethnic
Britain and resonates with current debates on immigration.
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