During the Second World War, British children were spared the humiliation and fear of enemy occupation. None the less, they endured six years of increasing.
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- Smith, Lyn 1934–
- Smith, Lyn 1934–
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- Young Voices, British Children Remember the Second World War by Imperial War Museum
Smith, Lyn 1934–
Language English View all editions Prev Next edition 3 of 7. Check copyright status Cite this Title Young voices: World War, -- Personal narratives, British. World War, -- Children. Target Audience General Notes Originally published: Published in association with The Imperial War Museum. View online Borrow Buy Freely available Show 0 more links Set up My libraries How do I set up "My libraries"?
Smith, Lyn 1934–
These 3 locations in All: Open to the public Open to the public. This single location in New South Wales: This single location in Queensland: This single location in Western Australia: None of your libraries hold this item. Found at these bookshops Searching - please wait From the diaries kept by Mass Observation volunteers during the second world war we picked a few which contained particularly vivid Blitz experiences. We then wrote to the authors, asking them, without referring to anyone or any document, to tell the story again. Half a dozen obliged.
Any resemblance between the original story and the version recounted 30 years later was almost entirely coincidental. They got everything wrong: In almost every case they moved themselves closer to the centre of events; what had happened to a neighbour now happened to them. Both these books are based on oral testimony.
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The first, The World at War, skilfully edited by Richard Holmes, draws on the vast pool of interviews given for the television programme of the same name. The second, Young Voices, is a pot-pourri of childish or teenage recollections of the second world war. Given the reservations above, can such books be worth anything? The answer must be, yes, a great deal.
Young Voices, British Children Remember the Second World War by Imperial War Museum
Nobody in their senses is going to scour these books for precise information about the course of the war. The latter are the more valuable. Eden and Speer were, for the most part, merely propounding points of view that they had already advanced publicly a hundred times.
Unkempt, bearded, squat and bandy-legged individuals who came shuffling and slouching in. Extremely tired men, grim-visaged …. And one thought — Well, was the great British Army beaten by runts like these? And by golly we had been beaten by them.
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There are some pleasantly diverting nuggets of information among the atmospheric pieces. Could the old lady in Coventry have said to the priest who went round to comfort her during the Blitz: Inevitably, the material for Young Voices is less rich and varied. The recollections of the evacuees are often moving, but tend to be drab in their recounting. Yet the stories of the children who survived the sinking of the City of Benares in in the north Atlantic are as starkly terrifying as any of the tribulations endured by their elders.
Bess Cummings remembered that:. Physically, it was very difficult because our tongues began to swell and our lips and jaws also. Our eyes were beginning to close and we were encrusted with salt.
Our fronts were like jelly from being flung up and down so many times, but we were past pain. We were barely alive. Neither of these books could have been written without the help and vast resources of the Imperial War Museum.