Jane's War

Eastbourne was the most raided town in the South East during World War II. Jane Kirby the author of Jane's War lived in Willingdon a village just inland from there. She was 9 when the war started and 15 when it finished and writes of her life in the village at that time. Read about how her and her friends managed with gas-masks air-raids ration books evacuation to Hertfordshire doodlebugs and the loss of loved ones. As a retired school teacher Jane Kirby has written this as suitable for History Key Stage 2 - The Impact of the Second World War on the People of Britain. It should also appeal to anyone who like herself was a child at that time.