Books by Penny Starns

From May 1940 the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand.

A revealing new biography of SOE operative Odette Sansom, first female winner of the GC

The mass evacuation of children and new and expectant mothers during the Second World War is well documented. In Blitz Families Penny Starns takes a new look at the children whose parents refused to bow to official pressure and kept their beloved children with them throughout the War.

Surviving Tenko