Safe but isolated
The mass evacuation would have an effect on the social fabric of the UK after the war - just one side effect of children on the move.
After peace
Wars can destroy economies as well as lives, but the responses should avoid assuming that one solution will work everywhere reconstructing peace, says Joe Hanlon
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A WORLD WAR
Literary Fiction
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Published by Flamingo ISBN: 0586091157
The Thin Red Line by James Jones
Published by Sceptre ISBN: 0340728108
Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard
Published byFlamingo ISBN: 0006547001
The Soldier’s Return by Melvyn Bragg
Published by Hodder ISBN: 0340767278
An Act of Treachery by Ann Widdicombe
Published by Orion ISBN: 0752848860
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Published by Minerva ISBN: 0749397543
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Published by Penguin ISBN: 0141000732
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Published by Picador ISBN: 0330349937
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
Published by Arrow ISBN: 0099427486
The World at Night by Alan Furst
Published by Harper Collins ISBN: 0006510973
The Great World by David Malouf
Published by Vintage ISBN: 0099273861
Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
Published by Arrow ISBN: 0099439964
A Woman of Cairo by Noel Barber
Published by Coronet ISBN: 0340377720
Popular Fiction
The Forger by Paul Watkins
Published by Faber ISBN: 0571206395
City of Gold by Len Deighton
Published by Arrow ISBN: 0099233916
Poetry
Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas
Published by Penguin ISBN: 0140029370
Memoir
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
Published by Vintage ISBN: 0099582317
Non-fiction
The Last Escape by John Nichol and Tony Rendell
Published by Penguin ISBN: 014100388X
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