Places of Greater Safety

By Hilda Hollingsworth

Book Overview

Hilda Hollingsworth's story of the World War II evacuation of nearly 1 million children from London's big cities to so called Places of Greater safety just prior to the Nazi blitz offers a look at the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963616110
• ISBN13: 9780963616111
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Rdr Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Childhood wartime memoirs

Hilda Hollingsworth and her two sisters (Roberta and PAt) were among the hundreds of thousands of evacuee children forced to leave London at the beginning of the Second World War. In this richly evocative narrative, by turns amusing and heartrending , Hollingsworth illustrates how she and her sister Pat were billeted to different households , and schools. Here she meets her friends , the dauntless and loudmouthed Winnie , Jessica , Joyce and Connie. From a posh household in Kent to the warm welcoming Auntie Vi and further on to a harsh and grubby Welsh mining village , were she was tormented by the sadistically smiling Joneses with their cruel cat and mouse games. The pious Williams provided her with some relief , but then she was sent to live with the vicious and abusive Aunt Bron. her story is told here and the reader is caught up with her experiences , her happiness and torment , and longing...