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AMERICA LOST AND FOUND
AN ENGLISH BOY'S WARTIME ADVENTURE IN THE NEW WORLD |
| By: |
Anthony Bailey |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£21.00 |
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£18.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226034550 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226034553 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 May, 2000 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
In 1940, seven-year-old Tony Bailey was evacuated to the US - one of more than 16000 children sent overseas at a time when a Nazi invasion of England seemed inevitable. He was sent to Ohio and four years later returned to Southampton. Bailey relates his dual identity of being American and British. |
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In 1940 seven-year-old Tony Bailey was evacuated to the United States one of more than 16,000 children sent overseas at a time when a Nazi invasion of England seemed inevitable. He spent four years with the wealthy Spaeth family in Dayton, Ohio, before returning to his parents in Southampton. Evocative, heartfelt, and charming, this is a story of a double childhood of a boy who became American while never ceasing to be British. "An original, sensitively told story in which the perspectives of the child are carefully remembered. . . . Bailey's book speaks, with gentle eloquence, not only to those who remember being boys, but to everyone who would seek to protect children from the hurts and ravagings that ordinary life can inflict, to say nothing of war." Richard Montague, "Newsday" "No doubt Tony Bailey owed America something for its hospitality during those anxious years, and with this book he has amply repaid the debt." Joseph McLellan, "Washington Post" "An exquisitely controlled, quietly amusing and moving story." "Publishers Weekly" "As tender as it is truthful, and as amusing as it is unpretentious." John Russell, "New York Times Book Review"" |
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25 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
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