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SMITH, LYN: : Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War

LONDON.VIKING/in association with the Imperial War Museum.2007.

ISBN 9780670915934.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn per se,but owner's named b/w printed Ex Libris bookplate pasted to front pastedown and partially hidden behind dw/dj front inner flap, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,contemporary monochrome biographical photographic illustrated dw/dj with glossy, embossed brown+white lettering and brown+black printed letters to front panel of dw/dj and similarly coloured lettering to spine/backstrip too; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean and without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original,plain royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters and immaculate - bookplate excepted - repeated b/w photographic illustrated endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xi-xxiii+1-436pp [paginated] includes illus list/table, acknowledgements,author Preface,15 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp104/5,pp200/01 and pp312/13 respectively,and contemporary ephemeral b/w illus/document facsimile reproductions interspersed throughout the text and the book, Suggested Reading,Contributors: Sound Archive, Contributors: Documents and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram (Winston Churchill - extract House of Commons speech,Aug,1940),a contents list/table,and to the rear 4pp blanks. During the Second World War,British children endured six years of increasing deprivation, uprootings and long separations from their families.They witnessed and endured intense air raids,attacked by both conventional bombs and the new terror weapons ov Vis and V2s.Many were exposed to both physical and psychological suffering and at a very young age were forced to cope with the loss of friends and family. Using personal accounts from the Imperial War Museum's Sound and Document Archives,'Young Voices' takes us beyond the home front and provides an insight into the lives of British children around the world during the Second World War.We learn what it was like to live in Nazi Germany as war was brewing.Children who lived under enemy occupation tell of their existence under the jackboot.With the spread of war after the bombing of Pearl Harbour,we hear of the brutal conditions experienced by those living under Japanese occupation and internment in the Far East. For many their wartime years have been the most powerful experience of their lives and even those who suffered great hardship and loss insist they wouldn't have missed it.Through the richly diverse voices and writings of over one hundred contributors,Lyn Smith has produced a powerful oral history of the war as seen from a child's perspective. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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