Stories from WW2?

[Jo Simpsons]

My middle daughter, Leanne, is involved in a youth project to help promote the History and life in WW2. If any one reading has any stories that they would like to share with youths, Lea would be very grateful to put them to the group. We live in the North East but it doesn't have to be from this area.
Anything you would like to say let me know or post here. I'm sure it would be great reading.
Jo :)

[Guy Etchells]

There could be something on
http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells/WarDiaries.htm
that may interest them.
Cheers
Guy

[Jo Simpsons]

Thanks Guy. Will look through now. From another group a lovely man has wrote his memoirs of an evacuee. Lovely reading. They are going to use some of that to help promote interest. With it being the 60th year they are encouraging youths to be more understanding of the life then. Not just information on the cause of it. Real life brings things home.

Thanks again,
I am looking backwards still :D
Jo:)

[Mary Young]

Don’t know if this book is still in print, or perhaps you can order from your library:
"Ethel and Ernest a True Story" by Raymond Briggs (the artist of the famous "Snowman" animation) ISBN 0224 04662 4.
A book of his parents' life together, 1928-1971. The section on the war years is absolutely wonderful. Every picture tells a story – gas masks, Anderson shelters, the blitz, air raid wardens, doodle-bugs, rationing, etc, plus social aspirations and politics of the time.
This is a must read!

[keith9351]

The BBC has a project with 100's of stories at
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/
could be some local one's there for you.
Keith

[Jo Simpsons]

Thank you all for your help. The mobile library will be round this week so I can ask about the book. Heaps of stories on the BBC site! Brilliant reading the diaries Guy.

Jo :)

[Ken Boyce]

The following tear jerker books by Ben Wicks are a must read (Mum stockup on the tissues!) They deal with the children of the London Blitz and Evacuees

No time to wave goodbye.

The day they took the children.

Nell's war : remembering the Blitz

Waiting for the all clear.

Promise you'll take care of my daughter : the remarkable war brides of World War II

When the boys came marching home : true stories of the men who went to war and the women and children who took them back.


Regards from one who lived thro' it