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Hilda Hollingsworth (Author), Wendy Logsdon (Designer)
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As Hitler's bombers prepared to unleash their reign of terror on England, hundreds of thousands of parents packed their children off to government-designated "Places of Greater Safety." Among the innocents were 10-year-old Hilda and her two sisters. In the spirit of Anne Frank's diary, Hilda Hollingsworth offers us a bittersweet tale of their life in a Welsh mining village. Passed through a series of households, their story is alternately funny, tragic and poignant, as is any story of war told from the eyes of a child. Indeed, the Hollingsworth sisters, as much as any soldier caught on the field of battle, were truly prisoners of war.

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  • Paperback: 286 pages
  • Publisher: RDR Books; 1st Zenobia Press ed edition (January 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0963616110
  • ISBN-13: 978-0963616111
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,653,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Childhood wartime memoirs, November 22, 2006
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Hilda Hollingsworth and her two sisters (Roberta and PAt) were among the hundreds of thousands of evacuee children forced to leave London at the beginning of the Second World War.
In this richly evocative narrative, by turns amusing and heartrending , Hollingsworth illustrates how she and her sister Pat were billeted to different households , and schools.
Here she meets her friends , the dauntless and loudmouthed Winnie , Jessica , Joyce and Connie.
From a posh household in Kent to the warm welcoming Auntie Vi and further on to a harsh and grubby Welsh mining village , were she was tormented by the sadistically smiling Joneses with their cruel cat and mouse games.
The pious Williams provided her with some relief , but then she was sent to live with the vicious and abusive Aunt Bron.
her story is told here and the reader is caught up with her experiences , her happiness and torment , and longing...
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