This book looks at the curriculum history of World War II, through a series of poems from the time. Each poem covers a different topic such as daily wartime life, rationing, evacuation, air raids and attitudes towards patriotism. The backgrounds to each poem and poet is given, together with an explanation of what each poem is about. It also includes poems by Wilfred Gibson, Bertolt Brecht, Doris Burton and Louis MacNeice.

 

This book features in the following series: History Through Poetry, How Did It Happen? .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Hachette Children's Group .

Reg Grant studied history at Oxford University and is the author of over a dozen books on modern history.