The Day They Took The Children

On 1 September 1988, to celebrate the launch of Ben Wicks' previous book, No Time To Wave Goodbye, hundreds of men and women travelled the length and breadth of the country to converge on London's Marylebone Station. It was a nostalgic reunion. Nearly fifty years before, as children, following the outbreak of World War II they had lined up to be evacuated from bomb-threatened cities to the safety of...