Little Girls War
Little Girls War Wendy ran home through the streets of Bexleyheath with the air-raid siren wailing, her little gas mask box bumping against her hip. You never forget a moment like that. Just as she…
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Little Girls War
Wendy ran home through the streets of Bexleyheath with the air-raid siren wailing, her little gas mask box bumping against her hip. You never forget a moment like that. Just as she reached her front gate, a Spitfire spiralled out of the air and crashed into the school field at the end of the road.
Here, through the eyes of a small child, we see family life on the Home Front in 1944 in its entirety - from bombed-out houses to burnt potato peelings, from maths lessons and classroom antics to air-raid sirens and crashing planes. Growing up in Bexleyheath in the Second World War, bombs, air-raid sirens and fear were all Wendy had ever known. After the family slept through an air raid that destroyed the houses directly opposite, Wendy's parents decided it had become far too dangerous.
Wendy, her sister Thelma and her brother Brian were evacuated to the Burnley area of Lancashire. Surrounded