Kriegskinder (War Children): By Dorothy Burlingham and Anna Freud. London: Imago Publishing Co., Ltd., 1949. 82 pp.

The English edition of this book was published in 1943 under the title War and Children and was extensively reviewed by Edith Entenman.1 The reader is reminded that it was originally written for the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, Inc., some of whose residential nurseries in England Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham directed during the war. The book was designed to serve as a guide to this organization and others engaged in child welfare work. While not intended to give the authors' complete observations nor the resulting psychoanalytic conclusions and evaluations, it is important reading for psychoanalysts since it opens new vistas and sheds new light on many phenomena. The description of the development of object relationships and the trauma of separation with its specific reactions at various age levels is new in the analytic literature. The effects of bombing on aggression, fear and superego development are clearly evaluated. Reports of observations, in the form of a letter, were written monthly and sent to supporters of the nurseries. Some of these were included in the English book but have been omitted in the German version. This reviewer hopes