Michael Bentinck's book, Waving Goodbye, is a book which tells the story of evacuees during World War Two. This is Michael's fifth book and follows the success of the previous four,  My Dad, My Hero, Forgotten Heroes, A Will To Live and War Time Women.

This book was written because in 1939, on the very eve of war, the Government made the decision to evacuate 1.5 million children from Britain's towns and cities, to what was suppose to be, the safety of the countryside. Some children found happiness others found themselves being used as cheap labour.

By the end of that very same year, after much begging to parents, two thirds of the children had returned home. The Government made three further attempts to evacuate children but all three schemes ended in the same way, with parents collecting children, or in some cases children just left their host families and walked home.

Waving Goodbye contains stories and letters from people who went through those evacuation schemes. There are tales of happiness, sadness, laughter and tears. These are stories from people who were children at the time that these things happened to them. Many of those children are still coming to terms with that experience today, some sixty or so years later.

Michael Bentinck, has given part of the proceeds from the sale of his books to different charities. With this, his fifth book on real life stories from the Second World War, Michael will be giving some of the proceeds to the National Blind Children's Society.

Waving Goodbye contains 164 pages, including a letters and photographs section.

Peoples stories which appear in Waving Goodbye are:

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