Blitzed - Robert Swindells

The majority of the people here won’t have been alive during World War II. So what images do we have of that time? Air-raid shelters, buildings bombed, concentration camps, children being evacuated, Hitler? How different would living through it all have been to our isolated images? This is what a schoolboy called George finds out in the novel Blitzed by Robert Swindells. He is fascinated by WWII and collects models of military vehicles used at the time. Not surprisingly then, he is really looking forward to the school trip to Eden Camp in Yorkshire, a museum about life during the War. In the meantime, he gets on with his ordinary life. He hangs ...

I had a spare afternoon the other week and it was actually still warm and sunny, so I ventured into the garden, settled down and read a book I had been promising that I would read for ages. I am presently trying to read (and re-read) some children's books that I feel might be useful and entertaining. The books I had already sampled, by Robert Swindells, had been good and I decided that Blitzed would be a good next choice. My tastes at the moment seem to including quite a few books with the Second World War as a theme, so this would fit in with that ~ it also has a time travel element too, so that would cater for my Sci-fi needs. ~~~The author. ...