scearce's son, it brings the reader along on the combat missions flying from places like midway, guam and saipanprg increasingly closer to japan. the author's intense research is obvious and yet i think it appeals to the reader because it is like, it reads like a page-turning story. and my last book is called "just a larger family: letters of marie williamson from the canadian home front, 1940-1944." so as world war ii in europe got underway, families began evacuating british children. at first evacuation was limited to well-to-do families, people with money or influence, but then companies like ford and kodak arranged evacuation of children of their employees, then service clubs like rotary started to help, and then private schools would make arrangements. then the british government got involved to make evacuation a little more equitable, and the result was corb, the children's overseas reception board for canadians it was painfully clear a german invasion of great britain was a great possibility, and many canadians still had strong ties to the mother country and felt committed to supporting t