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Wartime in Whitstable Remembered
Paul Crampton
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Jessie Vine’s memoir begins in the last few days of peace in 1939. As the Anderson shelter is installed in the back garden of their Rochester home, Jessie, with her young daughter Joy, eagerly awaits her husband Tom’s homecoming, as his ship returns to Chatham Dockyard. And then, when war seems inevitable, Jessie organises an evacuation from Rochester to Whitstable, where she rents a bungalow in the suburb of Tankerton. Tom soon goes back to sea, and the perils of war. They do not see him again for two years. In the meantime, Jessie helps out at a local school, ... Read more
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752461243
SKU
V9780752461243
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Ref
99-10
About Paul Crampton
PAUL CRAMPTON is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, who also runs his own second-hand bookselling business. He is a keen collector of photographs and his most recent book for The History Press won the prestigious John Hayes Canterbury Award. He lives in Canterbury
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