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America, Lost & Found

by Anthony Bailey
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AMERICA, LOST & FOUND is a memoir and an adventure. Anthony Bailey was seven in 1940 when he was evacuated to the United States--one of 16,000 children sent overseas at a time when a Nazi invasion of England seemed likely.

Bailey, the son of a bank manager who lived on an unpaved road near Southhampton, was transported to a mansion in Dayton, Ohio.

For four years the Spaeths were his family, while the memories of his parents and younger sister grew faint.

"This is an account of a double childhood--of a small boy who became American while never ceasing to be British. It evokes, lovingly, a detailed picture of America during the war, and presents a view of this country that perhaps only someone with one English and one American eye could create." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

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Richard Montague

Bailey's 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. Newsday

Book Details

Published
June 8, 1980
Publisher
New York : Random House, c1980.
Pages
152
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780394510880

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