Pearls of Childhood: The Poignant True Wartime Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in an Adopted Land by Vera Gissing

Pearls of Childhood: The Poignant True Wartime Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in an Adopted Land

Vera Gissing

176 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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In June 1939, shortly before her 11th birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family, and friends, to spend six years in Britain. Throughout the war years, Vera kept a diary, recording her day-to-da...

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