An Evacuee's Story a North Yorkshire Family in WartimeLulu.com, 12. sep. 2007 - 464 sider A poignantly written and graphically described story of the pleasure and pain endured as an evacuee during World War Two. Like so many of his young friends and relatives, John Wright was required to leave the love and care of his parents in Middlesbrough at a very young age to escape the attention of the Luftwaffe and to be evacuated into the hands of a crowded and unloving home in Haxby, a quaint village north of the great city of York. The book eloquently describes his voyage of childhood discovery in the beautiful countryside coupled with the cruel attentions of a foster mother whose motivation was not to lavish love and support to her unfortunate foster children, but to hurt and belittle them. It is a bittersweet story of innocent interludes and mean realities for an evacuee child set amidst the horrors and melancholy of that devastating conflict. |
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CONTENTS | 20 |
Preface Beginnings Evacuation | 26 |
Exodus | 53 |
Little Man Youve had a Busy | 77 |
Haxby | 86 |
Kitty | 103 |
Winter into Spring | 129 |
Grove House | 154 |
And So To School | 250 |
Village Life and People | 266 |
Stormy Waters | 290 |
Early 1942 | 313 |
Blitzed | 338 |
The Old Order Changeth | 361 |
The Turning Tide | 378 |
Comings and Goings | 398 |
Salad Days | 174 |
An Hourglass on the Run | 200 |
The Land of Lost Content | 226 |
The Return | 428 |
i 26 53 77 86 103 129 154 174 200 226 250 266 290 313 338 361 378 398 428 | 447 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
Archie became become bombers bombs boys brought brown called carried church close clothes cold covered crossing dark deep door early enjoyed eyes face farm felt fields fire four front garden George German girls Gran green hands hard Harris Haxby head heard heavy helped huge hundred Italy Jimmy John Kitty known land Lane later learned leave light lived looked loved miles Miss months morning mother moved never night North parents passed played raid railway road round seemed seen side soldiers soon started station stone stood Street summer taken tall thick things thought told took train trees turned village walked wall warm week wooden York young