world war two Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/world-war-two/ Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:51:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Non-Fiction: Being Bombed Out https://booksbywomen.org/non-fiction-being-bombed-out/ https://booksbywomen.org/non-fiction-being-bombed-out/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:56:32 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14381 This is an account of what it was like to be nine years old and on the receiving end of the bombing power of a well-armed enemy. Like millions in London we were evacuated at the start of the war. My father went to Harpenden with the insurance company he worked for, two days before […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/non-fiction-being-bombed-out/feed/ 3 14381 Introducing the Holocaust to Young Readers https://booksbywomen.org/introducing-the-holocaust-to-young-readers/ https://booksbywomen.org/introducing-the-holocaust-to-young-readers/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:30:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13625 In 2014, with the present rise of another wave of Anti-Semitism, I was commissioned by Scholastic Australia to write a novel set in the Holocaust. Given the vast number of novels, memoirs, biographies, essays, poetry and commentaries that have appeared in the last seventy years the task was daunting. Even though I thought I knew […]

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