Did displaced children suffer lifelong damage? Roger Moore was one of hundreds of thousands evacuated from British cities during World War Two — and some coped better than others.
VE Day: the evacuee who became Bond
Refugee: The young Roger Moore was evacuated to a farm in Devon during WW2. He never forgot “skimming the cream off the top of the milk and the most wonderful blackcurrant and apple pies”. Glossary
Zeppelins - A type of large, rigid airship; a cigar-shaped aircraft that floats because it is filled with gas and has a rigid frame to maintain its shape.
Operation Pied Piper - The British government's plan to evacuate children and other vulnerable civilians from cities at risk of bombing during World War II.
Blitz - A German bombing campaign against the UK between 1940 and 1941, during World War Two.
Socialist - A term used to describe a range of beliefs that stress collective control of economic processes. In the USA, it usually refers to a group of people who think that the USA ought to be more like European countries, offering universal healthcare, a higher minimum wage, and stronger workers' rights.