Black hardcover with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair. Ex-library copy, stamps to front endpapers and half-title. Scuffing where label has been removed at top of fep. Dustjacket condition: Fair, slightly sunned, small neat library code label to base of spine. The jacket has a removable plastic cover. Not price-clipped.. 284pp. 21 b/w photographic plates and 15 line drawings and engravings in text. The story of the tens of thousands of British children send overseas for a supposedly better life. unaccompanied by parents or friend, in the name of God and Empire.

social History Anthropology Patriotism