Ben Wicks

Peter Worthington

The Naked Gourmet

The Book of Losers

This is a collection of oral histories of those who travelled from all over the world to make a new life and nation in Israel. Ben Wicks is the author of No Time to Wave Goodbye.

Dawn of the Promised Land

Cher Monde

The Remarkable War Brides of World War II

Promise You'll Take Care of My Daughter

An intensely moving and personal record of the experiences of children who were evacuated in World War II.

No Time to Wave Goodbye

By this time I wanted my Mummy and Daddy and to be back in that little terraced house all together again. Later, in a strange cold bed at the end of that long weary day, I hid under the bedclothes and cried. No Time to Wave Goodbye follows the untold tales of some of the 3.5 million evacuees whose lives were suddenly and unforgettably shaken by the upheaval of war. Wicks weaves together the adult memories of children who went to school as normal only to end their day in the homes of complete strangers, within the alien landscape of the English countryside. Unknown to many of them it would now be years before they would once again be reunited with their loved ones. No Time to Wave Goodbye paints a startling and often heartbreaking picture of the evacuees' war.

Ben Wicks

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