Ebook: Evacuees: Evacuation in Wartime Britain 1939-1945

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Bloody Vackees!'; 1 How It All Began; 2 Planning and Rehearsal; 3 The First Evacuation; 4 'Leave Them Where They Are, Mother'; 5 The Second 'Great Trek'; 6 The Third 'Great Trek'; 7 Arrival and Billeting; 8 Billet Life; 9 Homecoming and After; Bibliography.;As the last days of peace ebbed away in 1939 and the outbreak of the Second World War appeared inevitable, a massive exodus took place in Britain: nearly two million civilians, most of them children, were taken from the cities, industrial towns and ports to the relative safety of the British countryside.