New nonfiction · 2025
Blitz Kids
Book by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi
Summary
Blitz Kids: True Stories from the Children of Wartime Britain is a book by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, co-authors of The Sugar Girls. It was published in April 2025 as part of the commemorations for the eightieth anniversary of VE Day on 8 May that year. The book tells the stories of fifteen individuals who were children during the Second World War. Researching it, the authors spoke to more than eighty so-called Blitz Kids, before choosing a representative sample of stories.
From the Wikipedia article “Blitz Kids (book)”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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