Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain — John Welshman

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'Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain' — John Welshman. A history of the mass evacuation of British children from cities to the countryside during the Second World War, drawing on official records and personal testimony to examine how the scheme was planned and carried out. It follows a number of individual evacuees' experiences alongside the broader social and political context, covering the strains the policy placed on both evacuated children and the host families who took them in.