HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN 0007150075
A book for all ages and perhaps one of the finest books ever set before and during World War I. Thomas Peaceful looks back to his country childhood from the battlefields, knowing that something terrible is about to happen. The story is really that of his brother Charlie about to be shot - just one of many soldiers unjustly killed by firing squads by their own army. A warm and moving story.
Red Fox
ISBN 0099413124
Emil sets off alone by train to stay with his relations in Berlin and when his money is stolen he turns detective and is determined to get it back. A timeless story, a terrific adventure first published in 1931, that reflects a great understanding of childhood and gives a strong sense of a different world.
Puffin Books
ISBN 0141316896
The setting is Spain in 1939, just after the Civil War, and a boy is searching for his missing father. A story of love, prejudice and hatred and a strong picture of a war that touched so many lives.
HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN 0007182457
A wonderful motorbike-loving grandmother shares her wartime story with her grandson. The story is of the evacuation of a village in 1943 and is based on a real event - the love story involved is a beautiful work of fiction.
Orchard Books
ISBN 1843624850
Stopthief is a young boy during the siege of Warsaw - he’s never known his name but thinks it could be Stopthief as that’s what people shout when he steals bread. He rather likes the polished boots the soldiers wear but this is a story of survival, a story of a gradual understanding of the horrors of war.
Yearling (imprint of Random House Children's Books)
ISBN 044086397X
George, a present day school boy, is fascinated by everything he is told about the war and thinks rationing and evacuation must have been exciting. But something happens during a school visit and he finds himself back in 1940s London - he soon discovers that there is little glamour in war.
Barn Owl Books, London
ISBN 1903015103
Hannah is Jewish and it’s Passover and she wonders why her family are always talking about the past. A strange twist of fate takes her back in time and into the horrors of the Holocaust, in Poland in 1942 and on her way to a concentration camp.
Egmont Books Ltd
ISBN 0749747447
The first in a trilogy that wanders between India and Britain and pulls readers into another time. In this book we read of India in 1947 as two children take a terrifying journey across India on the eve of independence; their journey continues to England where they meet a father they don’t know and face more challenges.
Puffin Books
ISBN 0141318333
It is the summer of 1949, four boys are leaving primary school for ever and are looking forward to a summer of freedom. Trouble at school and the discovery of an unexploded bomb change everything and the summer takes on a different mood. This is a brilliant portrait of post-war Britain - and a fast-paced, exciting story too!
Doubleday Children's Books
ISBN 0385608896
For true accounts like Anne Frank’s diary - look perhaps at Sandy Toksvig’s book of her father’s wartime memories, Hitler’s Canary.
