This book tells the story of four real children who lived through World War II : 6 year-old John from East Ham in London; Hella who was sent from Vienna in Austria, to Britain, on a special train called a Kindertransporte to a foster family in London; Molly was 8 years old when her home, the Island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands was occupied by the German army in 1939; and Gloria, who was living with her aunt and uncle in Kingston, the capital of the Caribbean island of Jamaica [which was part of the British Empire] in the West Indies, when war broke out in Europe in 1939.

ISBN:

0713658568

Dewey class:

942.084

Language:

English

Subject:

Children -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile literatureWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literature

BRN:

617013

Bookmark link:

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