Voices From the Second World War Witnesses Share Their Stories With the Children of Today

A unique, moving collection of first-person accounts of the Second World War, published in association with the award-winning children's newspaper First News. A powerful, moving collection of first-person accounts of the Second World War. Contributors include a rear gunner who took part in sixty bombing raids, a Jewish woman who played in the orchestra at Auschwitz, a Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children by setting up the Kindertransport program from Czechoslovakia. Many of the interviews were conducted by children, and the book is being published in association with award-winning children's newspaper First News.

Product details

• Publisher: Walker Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.09.2017
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics
• EAN: 9781406365986
• ISBN: 978-1-4063-6598-6
• Pages: 320
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 14
• Subjects: JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Military & Wars, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Interest age: from c 9 years, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Warfare, battles, armed forces (Children's / Teenage)