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    Looking Back: Reflections of a London Child on the War Years 1939 - 1945
    Looking Back: Reflections of a London Child on the War Years 1939 - 1945
    Looking Back: Reflections of a London Child on the War Years 1939 - 1945
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    Looking Back: Reflections of a London Child on the War Years 1939 - 1945

    By Eva Merrill

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    This book is a first hand account of the events of World War Two seen through the eyes of a teenager who spent some of this period enduring the bombing raids on London, and some of it billeted with various families in the country as an evacuee.

    The writing incorporates a chronological account of the main events of the War, but is written in such a way that it doesnt seem like a history book. Its a real life adventure story, sometimes funny and sometimes sad. Life wasnt all picnics in the country for an evacuee, and such things as toilets in sheds at the bottom of the garden took a lot of getting used to for a little city girl.

    As a source of information on the social history of Britain, this book is invaluable as there are all sorts of details that you wouldnt normally find in text books. Its written with a sense of the ridiculous and Evas description of how the family actually used their Morrison Table shelter could be a script for a comedy sketch.

    Above all, this is a book with universal appeal and is to be recommended to anyone with an interest in the war years as well as schools and colleges where the subject is taught.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 25, 2013
    ISBN9781481704526
    Looking Back: Reflections of a London Child on the War Years 1939 - 1945
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    Eva Merrill

    Eva Merrill was born in 1927, the eldest child of a working class family living in North London. She was twelve when World War 2 started in 1939 and she and her sister were evacuated to various parts of the country where they would be safer than in London. Eva also spent some of the war years in London, living through the constant air raids on the city. After the War Eva worked in a bank for a while before she decided to go to college to train to be a missionary. Whilst at college she met Ray Merrill and fell in love with him, so wasn’t allowed to complete her course. In common with most women of her generation, Eva gave up work to bring up her family of three children, but once they were of school age she had lots of different jobs ranging from apple picking to librarian, juggling work around the family. In the 1970s she trained as a Social Worker and worked in Hackney for a number of years until her retirement. Eva has acute observational skills and a ready wit; both are reflected in her writing.

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