ResCEW Bibliography
Journals
Children in War Journals....available in the Archive at MERL
Books
Beardmore. George. Civilians at War. Journals. 1938-46. OUP
Beevor. Antony (2003) Berlin.
Calder. Angus (1991) The Myth of the Blitz. Jonathan Cape.
Cull. Nicholas (1995) Selling War. Oxford.
Gardiner. Juliet. (2004) Britain at War.
Gregory. Adrian. Silence of Memory. Armistice 1919-1946.
Harrisson. Tom (1978) Living Through the Blitz. Penguin.
Hickman. Tom (1995) What did you do in the war Auntie? The BBC at War. BBC
Holliday. Laurel (1995) Children's Wartime Diaries. Piatkus.
Johnson. Derek E. (1994) East Anglia at War. 1939-45. Jarrold.
Kater. Michael H. (2006) Hitler Youth. Harvard
Knopf. Guido (2002) Hitler's Children. Sutton
Lowe. Roy ed. (1992) Education and the Second World War. Studies on schooling and social change. Falmer Press
Marwick. Arthur (1976) The Home Front. Thames and Hudson.
Marwick. Arthur (1988) Total War and Social Change. Macmillan
McKibbin. Ross (1991) The Ideologies of Class. Social Relations in Britain 1880-1950. OUP.
Morgan. David and Evans. Mary (1993) The Battle for Britain. Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War. Routledge
Mosely. Leonard. (1971) Backs to the Wall. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Nicholas. Lynn H. (2006). Cruel World. The Children in the Nazi Web. Vintage
Nicholas. Sian The Echo of War. Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC 1939-45. Manchester University Press.
Noakes. ed (1998). The German Home Front in World War Two. Vol 4. Exeter University Press.
Parsons M. L.(ed) (2008) Children the Invisible Victims of War. DSM
Parsons M.L. (2008) War Child. Children Caught in Conflict. History Press
Pelling H. (1970) Britain and the Second World War. Collins
Ponting. Clive (1990) 1940. Myth or Reality. Hamish Hamilton.
Ramsey ed (1992) The Blitz. Then and Now. Vols 1-3. After the Battle.
Samuel. Raphael & Thompson. Paul The Myths We Live By.
Samuel. Raphael (1994) Theatres of Memory. Verso
Sichrovsky. Peter (1988) Born Guilty. Children of Nazi Families. Basic
Screen J.E.O. (2000) Mannerheim. The Finnish Years. Hurst
Smith. Harold L. ed (1986) War and Social Change. British Society in the Second World War. Manchester University Press.
Stargardt. Nicholas (2005) Witnesses of War. Jonathan Cape.
Strachey. St.Loe (1940) Borrowed Children. John Murray.
Summers. Julie (2008) Stranger in the House. Simon and Schuster
Richard Titmuss. (1950) Problems of Social Policy. HMSO
Stevenson. J. (1990) British Society 1914-45. Penguin
Waller and Vaughan-Rees (1990) Blitz. The Civilian War. 1940-45. Optima
Ziegler. Philip (1995) London at War. Sinclair-Stevenson.
BRITISH EVACUATION
Crosby. Travis L. (1986) The Impact of Civilian Evacuation in the Second World War. Croom Helm.
Holman. Bob (1995) Evacuation. A very British Revolution. Lion
Inglis. Ruth (1986) The Childrens War. Fontana.
Parsons Martin and Starns. Penny (1999) Evacuation. The True Story. DSM
Parsons. Martin L. (1998) I'll Take That One. Dispelling the Myths of Civilian Evacuation 1939-45. Beckett and Karlson.
Parsons. Martin L. (2004) Manchester Evacuation. The Exception to the Rule. DSM
Parsons.Martin L. (1999) Waiting to go home. DSM
Wallis. Jill (2000) A Welcome in the Hillsides? The Merseyside and North Wales Experience of Evacuation 1939-45. Avid Publications.
Wicks. Ben (1990) No Time to Wave Goodbye. Bloomsbury.
OVERSEAS EVACUATION.
Barker. Ralph (1987) Children of the Benares. A War Crime and its victims. Methuen
Bilson. Geoffrey (1988) The Guest Children. Fifth House.
Cave. Patricia (1995) War Guest. Recollections of being evacuated to Canada in 1940. Adept Services Publishing
Fethney. Michael (2003) Absurd and the Brave. Book Guild Sussex. Republished
Gill. Alan (2005) Likely Lads and Lasses. BBM
Gill. Alan (1998) Orphans of the Empire. Vintage.
Henderson. Michael (2004) See You After the Duration. The Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II. Britannica.
Horne. Alistair (1993). Bundles from Britain. Macmillan.
Humphreys. Margaret (1994) Empty Cradles. Doubleday.
Schweitzer. Pam ed. (1990) Goodnight Children Everywhere. Exchange Theatre Trust.
Spokes Symonds Ann.ed.(1990) Havens Across the Sea. Mulberry Books.
Stokes. Edward (1994) Innocents Abroad. The Story of child evacuees in Australia 1940-45. Unwin.
Shakespeare. Sir Geoffrey (1949) Let Candles Be Brought In. MacDonald and Co.
OTHERS.
Heinl. Peter (2001) Splintered Innocence. Brunner Routledge.
Freud Anna and Burlingham. Dorothy T. (1942) War and Children.
THE AFTERMATH
Anonymous. (2004) A Woman in Berlin. Virago
Bar-On, D (1995) Fear and Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust Harvard University Press: London
Bar-On, D (1999) The Indescribable and the Undiscussable: Reconstructing the Human Discourse after Trauma Central University Press: Budapest
Bar-On, D ed. (2000) Bridging the Gap: Storytelling as a way to work through Political and Collective Hostilities Köber Stiftung: Hamburg
Beevor Antony and Cooper Artemis. (1994) Paris. After the Liberation: 1944-1949. Penguin
Beller, S (1989) Vienna and the Jews: A Cultural History 1867 - 1938 Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
Beradt, C (1985) The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation: 1933 - 1939 The Aquarian Press.
Beaglehole, A (1990) Facing the Past: Looking Back at Refugee Childhood in New Zealand, Allen and Unwin: Wellington NZ
Beaglehole, A with Levin, H (1995) Far from the Promised Land: Being Jewish in NZ Pacific Press: Wellington, NZ
Beaglehole, A (2002) Replacement Girl Tandem Press: Auckland, NZ
Bader Whiteman, D (1993) The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy Insight Books: New York
Bohm-Duchen, M. ed. (1995) After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (in association with Northern Centre for Contempoarary Art, Sunderland)
Brett, L. (2002) Too Many Men .
Dalal, F (1998) Taking the Group Seriously Jessica Kingsley: London
Etherington, K (2003) Trauma, The Body and Transformation: A Narrative Inquiry Jessica Kingsley: London.
Epstein, H (1979) Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with the Sons and Daughters of Survivors Penguin: New York
Epstein, H (1998) Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History. Plume Book by Penguin: New York
Ericsson, K and Simonsen, E (2005) Children of World War II. The hidden enemy legacy
Grinblat, K Ed. (2002) Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation University of Western Australia Press: Montrose
Haffner, S (2003) Defying Hitler. Phoenix: London
Translated from the German, Geschichte eines Deutschen or 'History of a German'.
Hirsch, R (1995) Last Dance at the Kempinski: Creating a Life in the Shadow of History. University Press of New England: Hanover NH USA
Judt. Tony. (2007) Postwar. A history of Europe since 1945. Pimlico
REPRESENTATION OF WAR IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, MEDIA AND DRAMA
Indicative Reading:
Picture Books
David McKee, The Conquerors [war in general]
Michael Foreman and Louise Borden, The Little Ships [Dunkirk]
Michael Foreman, After the War was Over [WW2]
Michael Foreman, War and Peas [war in general]
Michael Foreman, War Boy [WW2]
Michael Foreman, War Game [WW1]
Shirley Hughes, The Lion and the Unicorn [Evacuation]
Junko Morimoto, My Hiroshima [WW2 Hiroshima]
Novels
Andrew Davies, Conrad's War [WW2]
Michael Morpurgo, Friend or Foe [Evacuation]
Anne Holm, I Am David [Holocaust]
Bernard Ashley, Little Soldier [child soldiers in Africa]
Elizabeth Laird, A little Piece of Ground [Palestine]
Elizabeth Laird, Kiss the Dust [Kurdistan/Iraq]
Ian Serraillier, The Silver Sword [refugees in WW2]
Judith Kerr, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit [WW2]
Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful [WW1]
Michael Morpurgo, Waiting for Anya [WW2 France]
Michael Morpurgo, War Horse [WW1]
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mr Tom [Evacuation]
Michelle Magorian, Back Home [Return from Evacuation Overseas]
Nina Bawden, Carrie's War [Evacuation]
Nina Bawden, Keeping Henry [Evacuation]
Noel Streatfeild, When the Siren Wailed [Evacuation]
Richmal Crompton, William and the Evacuees. [Evacuation]
Robert O'Brien, Z for Zachariah [nuclear war]
Robert Swindells, Brother in the Land [nuclear war]
Robert Westall, Blitzcat [WW2]
Robert Westall, Fathom Five [WW2]
Robert Westall, Gulf [Gulf war]
Robert Westall, The Kingdom by the Sea [WW2]
Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners [WW2]
Poetry
Anne Harvey [ed.] In Time of War [WW1 and 2]
Edward Hudson [ed.] Poetry of the Second World War
Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark [eds.], Peace and War [war in general]
Reg Grant [ed.] History through Poetry: World War Two
Anthologies
Carol Fox et al (eds.) In Times of War: An Anthology of War and Peace in Children's Literature [international perspectives on WW1 and 2 and more recent conflicts]
Mary Hoffman and Rhiannon Lassiter (eds.) Lines in the Sand: New Writing on War and Peace [Iraq]
Criticism
Carol Fox et al (2000), War and Peace in Children's Books. Brighton: University of Brighton
Kate Agnew and Geoff Fox (2001), Children at War: from the First World War to the Gulf. London: Continuum
THE MEDIA
Batho R. et.al. (n.d.)War and Peace in Children's Books.
Brians Paul.(1987) Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984.
Chapman. James (2000) The British at War. Cinema, State & Propaganda, 1939-1945.I.B. Taurus,
Ellis. John (1988) Visible Fictions.
Evans. Alun (2000) Brassey's Guide to War Films.
Flynn. Simon R.D. (2004) 'Those Billets': constructions of evacuation and evacuees in the BBC radio programme. Children's Hour. Children in War Journal.
Fox. Carol et al. (2000) War and Peace in Children's Books.
Hartley. Ian (1983) Goodnight Children … Everywhere.
James. Allison, Jenks. Chris and Prout. Alan (1998) Theorizing Childhood.
Jenks. Chris (1996) Childhood.
Lipschutz. Ronnie D. (2001) Cold War Fantasies.
Messenger Davies. Maire 'Do mention the war: Children and media coverage of traumatic events', Media War
Murphy.(Robert 1992) Realism and Tinsel. Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-46.
Marten. James Alan (ed.) (2002) Children and War.
Nicholas. Sian (1996) The Echo of War. Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC 1939-45.
Rattigan. Neil This is England. British Film and the People's War 1939-45
Rook. Robert E. (2004) 'Dr Spock Meets Dr Strangelove: Children During the Cold War', Children in War. Journal
Short. K.R.M. (ed.), (1983) Film and Radio Propaganda in World War II.
Stewart. Ian (ed.), 1996 War, Culture and the Media: Representations of the Military in 20th Century Britain.
Staples. Terry (1997) All Pals Together. The Story of Children's Cinema.
Trout. Steven (2004) ' The Jungle Seem[ed] for a Moment like the Home Counties':
Revisiting William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Children in War. Journal
Virilio. Paul (1989) War and Cinema. The Logistics of Perception.
Grevatt. Wallace (1988) Children's Hour. A Celebration of Those Magical
Years. BBC
FILMS
ARCHIVE/PROPAGANDA
Westward Ho 1940 Ministry of Information*
Living with Strangers MoI 1941*
The Village School. MoI 1941*
*All on a DVD entitled 'Keep the Wheels Turning'. Imperial War Museum
Spring Offensive 1942
FEATURE
Hope and Glory (John Boorman, GB, 1987)
Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg, USA, 1987)
Grave of Fireflies (Isao Takahata, Japan, 1987)
TELEVISION
Goodnight Mister Tom. BBC
Carries War BBC
Constructions of the Child in News & Drama
The Lost Decade BBC
Into the Arms of Strangers BBC