British Children's Literature and the Second World War

Owen Dudley Edwards

August, 2005
Paper, 256 pages, 16 illus
ISBN: 978-0-7486-1650-3
Edinburgh University Press
$55.00

Edwards discusses children’s radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child’s perspective versus the adult’s perspective, the development of sophistication, and the retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate. British literature is set in a wider context through a consideration of what British writing reached the U.S.A., and vice versa, and through an exploration of wartime Europe as it was shown to British children.

About the Author

Owen Dudley Edwards is a reader in history at the University of Edinburgh.

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