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Blitz Kids 2025
Blitz Kids: True Stories from the Children of Wartime Britain is a book written by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, who previously collaborated on The Sugar Girls. It was released in April 2025 to mark the eightieth anniversary of VE Day on 8 May.
The book follows the experiences of fifteen children who lived through the Second World War. While researching, the authors interviewed over eighty individuals referred to as Blitz Kids and selected a representative group of narratives. Among those featured are Maureen Donovan, who lost her home in Bromley by Bow during an air raid; Christopher Munro, a Liverpudlian whose father went missing at sea in the Merchant Navy; Frances Izzard, who was sent away for evacuation to Haslington in Cheshire; and Clare McGann, whose sons include actors Paul McGann, Stephen McGann, Mark McGann, and Joe McGann. Also included are Irene Brown, who watched troops leave for D-Day from Southampton; Doreen Cadden, who survived Operation Moonlight Sonata in Coventry; Doreen McBride, who assisted her father in smuggling meat from Dublin to Belfast; Brian Ingram, who collected shrapnel around his Birmingham home; Betty Peachy, who was trapped under debris during a bombing in Filton near Bristol; and John Le Page, a Guernsey evacuee residing in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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- 9780749575205
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- 336
