Safe Keeping - Voices from a Vanished World |
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| Author:
| Cooke, John |
| ISBN: | 978-0-359-21318-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2018 |
| Publisher: | Lulu Press, Inc.
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Safe Keeping is an intimate account of a small English boy's survival of a mid-Atlantic U-boat attack while on a wartime voyage to sanctuary, and his subsequent joyful childhood exile in America, which paved the way to a rich and rewarding adult life. It is a vivid account of wartime anxieties on both sides of the Atlantic, exploring among much else, death and sacrifice, rationing and food shortages, child-rearing and education.The story is told through the correspondence between the...
More DescriptionSafe Keeping is an intimate account of a small English boy's survival of a mid-Atlantic U-boat attack while on a wartime voyage to sanctuary, and his subsequent joyful childhood exile in America, which paved the way to a rich and rewarding adult life. It is a vivid account of wartime anxieties on both sides of the Atlantic, exploring among much else, death and sacrifice, rationing and food shortages, child-rearing and education.The story is told through the correspondence between the boy's mother in England and his Connecticut foster-mother -- greatly enhanced by the boy's own vivid verbatim descriptions of his full and varied life.