Author: Ben Wicks. Forward by Michael Caine. Published by Stoddart Publishing, Toronto, ON., 1988, 1st Edition. RARE: Flat Signed by the Author TWICE! Printed in USA. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book. Very Good Condition Dust Jacket, with minor wear and original price sticker. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inch, 228 pages with many B&W photos.
NO TIME TO WAVE GOODBYE, by Ben Wicks, is a powerful depiction of life as an evacuee, with historical facts to lend context to the variety of personal accounts. -Reviewed by Charlotte on Goodreads.
The World War II British government evacuated hundreds of thousands of children from London to the countryside, even to Canada and the U.S., to escape German bombs. This greatest movement of people that Britain ever experienced is recalled here by those involved, in interviews with Wicks, a Toronto journalist, who was himself a 12-year-old evacuee. Among them is actor Michael Caine, who remembers being, at age six, one of the ``filthy kids from London with funny accents.'' Others talk about deprivation and abuse, about young lives adapting to changed conditions. The author notes that an important repercussion to the evacuation was heightened political awareness of the injustices of the British class system. The voices heard here are haunting.Â
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Â Ben Wicks, CM (born Alfred Wicks; October 1, 1926 â September 10, 2000) was a British-born Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author.
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1st Edition Hardcover & Signed Twice by the Author!
ISBN: 9780773722156Â
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