Provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history and archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing often featured prominently, even though it has slipped out of French collective memory.

Lindsey Dodd is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Huddersfield

Introduction
1. Telling stories
Part I: Expecting bombing
2. Expecting war
3. Preparing for bombs
Part II: Experiencing bombing
4. Being bombed
5. An evolving response
6. In the aftermath
7. The consequences of bombing
Part III: Explaining bombing
8. Explaining bombing to the public
9. Explaining bombing to children
10. Friends, enemies and the wider war
Evaluating bombing: a conclusion
Index