A01=Ben Wicks
Author_Ben Wicks
Biography memoir wartime
Britain 1940s
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Childhood nostalgia stories
Dawn of the Promised Land
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Evacuated children
Evacuees in the Second World War
Experiences bombing
First hand account collection
Funny sad moving
Grandad grandma granny grandpa nan
Highly illustrated many photographs
Historical history
Ideal present for grandparents
No Time to Wave Goodbye
Nostalgic memories of evacuation
Personal telling retelling
Personal testimonies
Tear jerker sadness
Traumatic time
Upheaval military
Visual vivid memory
Waiting for All Clear
Welcome Home
WWII WW 2 2nd two
Product details
- ISBN 9780747506638
- Weight: 225g
- Dimensions: 192 x 252mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 1990
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Unique ... Wicks has caught all the pathos and the humour of those traumatic times in a moving book' - Yorkshire Evening Post on No Time to Wave Goodbye
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A beautiful, moving collection of evacuation stories from WWII, illustrated with 200 photographs
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In 1988, to celebrate Ben Wicks’ launch of his first book of writings by evacuees – No Time to Wave Goodbye – hundreds of people converged on London’s Marylebone Station for a nostalgic reunion. The author received thousands of letters, many from ex-evacuees, who on reading the book had laughed and wept as they relived something of their own past. They thanked him from the bottom of their hearts – and begged for more.
This further collection of memories contains stories from some of Britain’s 3.5 million evacuees during the Second World War. This beautiful volume is illustrated with 200 poignant photographs, along with personal mementoes, many from the evacuees themselves.
Told in their own words, these stories of evacuees are hugely diverse – often funny, often sad, and always moving.
Ben Wicks was born in London's East End in 1926. One of Canada's most celebrated cartoonists, and journalists, he was awarded the Order of Canada in 1986. Committed to helping those in need, Ben believed that every child deserved the right to learn to read and write. In 1995, Ben created the Born to Read series: a collection of six practical literacy guides for families and educators. In 1999 he and his wife, Doreen, established the I.Can Foundation which is dedicated to providing poor children around the world with materials and services to enable them to become literate. Ben Wicks passed away in September 2000.
