John Welshman: 2 books
Churchill's Children
The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
'We were dumped at a roundabout with our labels on. People pulled and tugged at the children they wanted. It was a bit like a cattle market... people just waded in. I went with a lady and her daughter - she was like a second Mum.' Alexander King, evacuated aged eleven Based on the stories of thirteen...
Titanic
The Last Night of a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-lived...