كتاب
Kisses on a postcard: a tale of wartime childhood
| العنوان: | Kisses on a postcard: a tale of wartime childhood |
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| المؤلفون: | Frisby, Terence. |
| بيانات النشر: | London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| وصف مادي: | 211 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- London -- Biography., World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Cornwall (County), World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- England -- London -- Biography., World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- England -- Cornwall (County) |
| Subject Person: | Frisby, Terence -- Childhood and youth. |
| الوصف: | It is June 13th, 1940. Terry, aged seven, and his elder brother Jack, eleven, stand in a crowd of children on the narrow platform at Welling station. Wearing labels, carrying gas masks and small suitcases, they are evacuees, or 'vackies', awaiting the steam engine which will pull them across the country towards their unknown destination - and new lives When they reach the tiny Cornish hamlet of Doublebois, Terry and Jack find they have swapped the newly built streets of suburban London for the adventure of the countryside. The woods and river become their playground, rabbit-catching and night-fishing their new pastimes. But it is the railway, above all, which delights them. Picked at random from the group of evacuees by a middle-aged couple, the brothers discover that the main London to Penzance line runs through a cutting right below the tiny terraced cottage where they are to live, the goods yard and sidings lie a couple of hundred yards down the line: to Jack and Terry, sons of a railwayman, No. 7 the Railway Cottages seems the perfect new home. It is the richest of childhoods, full of colour, humour and the unselfish love that Uncle Jack, an irreverent Welsh ex-miner, and his generous wife Auntie Rose, offer without reserve to the two young strangers. And despite fierce rivalry between local kids and the 'vackies', village life seems wonderful to the boys. That is, until the bombing of nearby Plymouth and dreadful news from the battlefield shatter the peace of Doublebois, reminders of the brutal reality of a war which at times had seemed so far away. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn373482319 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-4088-0058-4 1-4088-0058-6 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012235473.7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781408800584 1408800586 |
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