Children's Wartime Dairies - Laurel Holliday

Title quote Eva Heyman aged 13, Hungary, murdered at Auschwitz. I've always loved history, not political history the origins of world war one and such like, but the history of people. The stories of ordinary people during the industrial revolution, the poetry of the trenches during world war one and the contemporary diaries of those who lived through the Second World War always fascinated me. Probably the most famous of these Diaries is the diary of Anne Frank, the heart-warming yet harrowing diary of a young Jewish girl spending her adolescence hiding from the Nazi's in war-torn Holland. Yet the story of Anne Frank was not unique, in fact in ...  Read the complete review