In the summer of 1940, the German Luftwaffe was preparing to
destroy London by bombing it for fifty-six consecutive days and
nights. To spare British children from witnessing the carnage
and from possible death, millions of youth were evacuated from
their London homes and sent away to safe locations. For many
boys and girls, their lives would start over in new towns and
often with unknown families. Historically, the idea of
evacuating an entire generation of children, separating them
from their parents, was unprecedented. This is the story of one
of those evacuee children, Jayne Jaffe, who at age nine, began
witnessing the best and worst of humanity: war, love, death,
separation, tears, euphoria, destruction and rebuilding. For the
first time, Jayne's remarkable journey is told with compelling
narrative by author Jon Helminiak in This Token of Freedom.
"This Token of Freedom is an extraordinarily well written and
heartwarming story about family courage in a time of historic
global strife. It's important remin