America Lost and Found: An English Boy's Wartime Adventure in the New World

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In 1940 seven-year-old Tony Bailey was evacuated to the United Statesone of more than 16 000 children sent overseas at a time when a Nazi invasion of England seemed inevitable. He spent four years with the wealthy Spaeth family in Dayton Ohio before returning to his parents in Southampton. Evocative heartfelt and charming this is a story of a double childhoodof a boy who became American while never ceasing to be British. "An original sensitively told story in which the perspectives of the child are carefully remembered. . . . Baileys book speaks with gentle eloquence not only to those who remember being boys but to everyone who would seek to protect children from the hurts and ravagings that ordinary life can inflict to say nothing of war." Richard Montague Newsday "No doubt Tony Bailey owed America something for its hospitality during those anxious years and with this book he has amply repaid the debt." Joseph McLellan Washington Post "An exquisitely controlled quietly amusing and moving story." Publishers Weekly "As tender as it is truthful and as amusing as it is unpretentious." John Russell New York Times Book Review