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"Evacuation was a great success." Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation? Evacuation was a success in many ways but was also unsuccessful in others. Evacuation took place because of heavy bombing in large civilian places, the aim being to keep children safe from the dangers of the war. It was successful in that respect, as many children were sent to a safer enviroment in more rural areas where they were not as likely to be in as much danger as they would if they had stayed home. In September 1939, 1.5 million children were evacuated. However, by 1940 half of this number had been brought back home. This shows that the evacuation process also had its down-sides. The propoganda value of the evacuation was quite often more of a success than the realities of evacuation itself. Source A tells us of how there were social differences between host families and evacuees....

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