Voices from the Second World War : witnesses share their stories with the children of today
2017
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A powerful, moving collection of first-person accounts of the Second World War. Contributors include a rear gunner who took part in sixty bombing raids, a Jewish woman who played in the orchestra at Auschwitz, a Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children by setting up the Kindertransport program from Czechoslovakia. Many of the interviews were conducted by children, and the book is being published in association with award-winning children's newspaper First News.
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Imprint:
London : Walker Books Ltd, 2017.London : Walker Books Ltd, 2017.
Collation:
319 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Published in association with First News and The Silver Line.Includes index.
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9781406365986 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.53
Language:
English
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile literatureWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literatureNon-Fiction 9+History and WarfareInterest age: from c 9 yearsChildren's / Teenage: general interestChildren's / Teenage general interest: History & the pastChildren's / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed f
BRN:
1787734