The Evacuee Experience

By Michael Roberts

In this interesting and touching memoir, Michael Roberts gives an intimate firsthand account of being a child evacuee during the second world war. To a little boy of 6 the world seemed a very dark place when he and his brothers were put in a train to who knew where, leaving their parents behind for 5 years. Mick was taken in by a woman in Clapham, Bedford, who to him looked like a witch. He received no warmth or kindness and tried to run away, but was brought back to face a hard time. There were howerver lighter times where the teachers at the village school were kind and he made many friends with the children. Clapham was a village he would never forget and this is his story....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1471718077
• ISBN13: 9781471718076
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"