Children's Wartime Adventure Novels

<p>Experience World War II like an American twelve-year-old. </p><p><br></p><p>From Cherry Ames and Ann Bartlett nursing in war zones from the Pacific to Europe from aviators Dave Dawson and Stan Wilson in aerial dogfights with the enemy the middle-grade and teen readers growing up in the early 1940s received through these characters an amazing window on a world at war.</p><p> ​​​​​​​</p><p> The World War II-themed series novels discussed in this book were their companions in the baffling and exciting era of their already normally angst-ridden pre-teen and teen years. These books provided entertainment inspiration education and indoctrination of a kind as to what would be expected of them as kids in support of the war effort and what kind of adults they should strive to be.</p><p> </p><p> They grew up to be called The Silent Generation known for conformity respect for rules and a quiet but determined work ethic that never left them. See how the adventures in the wartime children's books they read shaped their knowledge of the world and formed their ideals.</p>