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“Evacuation was a great success” Do you agree with this interpretation? Explain your answer using the sources and your own knowledge.  

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"Evacuation was a great success" Do you agree with this interpretation? Explain your answer using the sources and your own knowledge. In many ways evacuation was a success but also a failure in some. In the first three days of September 1939, nearly 3,000,000 people were evacuated to the countryside; this was the biggest mass movement of people in British history. However being a voluntary scheme parents had a hard time deciding; should they send away the things that mean the most to them and possibly never get them back, or keep them with you and risk their lives. I am going to use the following sources to help build on this. Source A shows a big success of evacuation. Despite this it has its problems. First of all it is a photograph, and in being so it only shows one spilt second in history, maybe all the children were...

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