Tag: WW2

• Torn Loyalties of an Evacuee

  Doreen, by Barbara Noble, tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who is evacuated from a London slum during WW2,  and cared for by a well-to-do couple in the country. In the few short months she is there, she is torn between love of this new life, offering undreamed-of opportunities, and love of her mother…

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  July 28, 2021

  20thC, Novels, Persephone

  Barbara Noble, Doreen.;, Evacuation, WW2

• Honey, Prisoners – and a King’s Speech!

  During the war honey was popular, because sugar wasrationed. But Vere doesn’t tell us if her sweet gift was madeby a local beekeeper, or was a mass produced jar. Feel much better this week. Very hot. A jar of honey has been given me. Very pleasant to receive. Able to get one whole pound of…

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  November 13, 2013

  Christmas, honey, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, King’s speech, Persephone, prisoner in the tower. cat food, Vere Hodgson, WW2

• Sleepless Nights and Tea Rationing

  Last night was one of those when I woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I went downstairs, made a cup of tea, and carried on reading Few Eggs And No Oranges, the wartime diaries of Vere Hodgson, and thought how odd that I should be sitting there, sleepless for no particular reason,…

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  August 9, 2013

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, rationing, sleepless nights, tea, Vere Hodgson, wartime diaries, WW2

• In Which I am Sent to Coventry…

  A view of the Cathedral showing the back of the building withthe zig-zag walls. . . Well, the rain has stopped (although more is forecast), and the floods have drained away, but by yesterday it was bitterly cold, the water-logged land had turned to ice, and there was a thick frost covering rooftops, cars, trees and…

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  December 1, 2012

  air raid, basil spence, blitz, cathedral, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, john piper, modern architecture, stained glass, WW2

• A Tale of WW2 That Will Break Your Heart

  If you’re the kind of person who cries over books, make sure you’ve got a large hanky ready and waiting when you read Alison Pick’s Far To Go, because it’s beautifully written, totally gripping – and very, very sad. Set in Czechoslovakia in the final few months before the outbreak of the Second World War,…

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  August 13, 2012

  Alison Pick, Canadian Book Challenge, Czechoslovakia, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kinder Transport. Jews. Hitler, WW2