My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright

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Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Michael Foreman’s award-winning memoirs about his wartime childhood. ‘I woke up when the bomb came through the roof. It came through at an angle, overflew my bed by inches, bounced up over my mother’s bed, hit the mirror, dropped into the grate and exploded up the chimney.’

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Find out what it was really like to: Put up with food rationing,Undergo RAF Training,Take off in a bomber,Face enemy fighters,Survive the Battle of the Bulge. Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World WarFlossie is just nine years old when, in 1939, Britain declares war on Germany and her father leaves the family home to join the army. Flossie is left to bring up her baby brother and to face a whole host of new experiences on her own. Her diary becomes an outlet for relaying all the news from at home and abroad. From the first evacuees arriving to her sweetheart's being killed in Normandy in 1944, Flossie has to endure much hardship. But her own special blend of courage, humour and fighting spirit sees her through to the Armistice, when she can welcome her dad home at last. I was surprised that the book is carefully measured in how the enemies are discussed. Maddie and her mother both think it's wrong that Japanese Americans have been imprisoned. However, parents should know that Maddie still uses a slur; it would be worth warning a child that this isn't acceptable language. Otherwise, however, this has aged pretty well. I'm always going to have complicated feelings about romanticizing war and nationalism, but I think Maddie realizes that war is not glamorous at all by the book's end. I would use this book to introduce the idea of World War II in the history class, and what it would’ve been like to be a child during this time. The children made find it easier to understand the effects of the Second World War by comparing their lives to that of Flossie Albright. This book could also be used to teach grammar, spelling and self – correction.

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Life without her hero at home, a little girls dad off at war fighting for their country's safety. This book is about a young girl and her struggles in everyday life worrying about her dad. She goes through her first crush with her neighbor friend Johnny. The young girl waits and waits everyday for her dad to send letters to her talking about how he is doing and how he will be fine and not worry. She works so hard to look out for her mom, and make sure she will be okay. She writes down in his diary about every single thing that happens in her life. Every single day is a worry waiting for her father to come home.Soon, the whole area is out of bounds, as the Allied forces practise their landings for D-day, preparing to invade France. But Tips, Lily's adored cat, has other ideas – barbed wire and keep-out signs mean nothing to her, nor does the danger of guns and bombs. Frantic to find her, Lily makes friends with two young American soldiers, who promise to help her. But will she ever see her cat again? Lily decides to cross the wire into the danger zone to look for Tips herself… a few inaccuracies, for example, in the 1930s children had to have birth certificates and a child couldn't go unnamed for a year. This is a book about Flossie Albright who was a child in England during WWII. This diary was written by Flossie, in her words, about her time living and growing up during war time. The book is full of pictures, drawings, and advertisements that Flossie has cut out and pasted into "her diary". We follow Flossie during pre-war when there are rumors of war, during the days of war when there are refugees, shortages, bombings, and ups and downs, and finally to the end of war with celebrations, homecomings, and coming to terms with those that won't be coming home. Extracts such as this demonstrate the effectiveness of this book in being able to draw the reader into Flossie’s life, feel empathy towards her and at the same time, perhaps gain a sense of what it would have felt like to have to put your baby brother into a gas suit. As a primary teacher, I would be very happy if a book had this effect. And what a story. The story of a young man, a young soldier in the trenches of World War I who, on the spur of the moment, had done what he thought was the right thing.