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The destruction in the smaller towns was more likely to provoke panic and spontaneous evacuations.
The number of official evacuees rose to a peak of 1. By September, it stood at just over one million. By the end of , there were just , people officially billeted. Still, the V-1 flying bomb attacks from June provoked another significant exodus from London. From September , the evacuation process was officially halted and reversed for most areas except for London and the East coast.
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Returning to London was not officially approved until June In March , the billeting scheme was ended, with 38, people still without homes. The movement of urban children of all classes to unfamiliar rural locations, without their parents, had a major impact. It provides opportunities for former evacuees to contribute and share evacuation experiences and for researchers to request information such as the long-term effects of evacuation upon children.
The evacuation spawned a whole literature of children's and young adult fiction. The convenience of the setting for the writer is clear, allowing the child heroes to have adventures in a strange, new world. Some of the authors, like Nina Bawden , had themselves experienced evacuation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article's lead section contains information that is not included elsewhere in the article. If the information is appropriate for the lead of the article, this information should also be included in the body of the article.
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Read reviews that mention nurses women wwii historical romance fiction lives nurse men soldiers young horrors friendship brave predictable enjoyable ending kept perspective conditions. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I really struggled with this book. Not because it was bad, because I couldn't put it down.
I stayed up way too late reading "just one more chapter". I'm a nurse, and this book is a very accurate description of many of the things we go through, especially with trauma patients. I loved the friendship between the 3 women and I loved how they unconditionally supported each other.
This book made me smile, it made me flinch, and it made me cry several times, as a matter of fact. Sure, there were a few liberties taken with some dates, cities, and war details. That's part of being fiction. By far, the interwoven storylines overrode any author liberties. Her description of the nurses landing on Normandy match what I have heard from first-hand accounts. The three main characters are Scarlet, Ellie, and Lucy. Scarlet grew up priviledged and sheltered. Her family scoffs at her desire to become a nurse, and she is told repeatedly she can't handle the job.
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Ellie grew up in a close-knit, loving family, and maintains a sunny, positive, and lighthearted attitude toward life. As they grow and change, and assume different personalities based on the horrors they witness, they meet Lucy. Using a sharp piece of rock, he believes he can slowly cut through the metal bars. In other cells, he can hear the sounds of humans being tortured. Bree is returned to the cell and having been subjected to further experiments by placing skin grafts on more of her body. She explains how much Earth has changed during the war. A few hours later, she is taken for more experiments.
Skokes finally cuts through the bars on the roof skylight and escapes.
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He climbs along the roof tunnel only to be attacked by an unseen creature. After stabbing it and driving it away, he climbs down, back into his cell but loses his cutting implement. Bree is thrown back into the cell, now with a considerable fraction of her body covered in alien skin. Skokes believes he can cut through another set of bars and escape the roof tunnel. He climbs up, and while crawling along the tunnel, hears Bree being taken again. Looking down into a cell, he sees her being experimented on and attempts to stab the guard through the bars. The guard grabs his arm and cuts off his hand.
He wakes later back in his cell, with Bree looking on, now extensively transformed. She has given up hope and wants to die. Skokes, unable to give her what she wants, instead tells her an important military secret: There is hope and Earth is not beaten. A large fleet of ships is hidden, and the Earth defenses have been feigning a near-collapse. In thirty days, the fleet will strike at the alien homeworld, turning the tide of the war.
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