No time to wave goodbye

By Ben Wicks

Subjects: Large type books, World War, 1939-1945, Children, Evacuation of civilians

Description: Wicks weaves together the adult memories of children who went to school as normal only to end their day in the homes of complete strangers, within the alien landscape of the English countryside. Unknown to many of them it would now be years before they would once again be reunited with their loved ones. No Time to Wave Goodbye paints a startling and often heartbreaking picture of the evacuees' war.