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Author : Andrew Rootes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780785548638
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Front Line County - Kent at War written by Andrew Rootes and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Rootes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Front Line County written by Andrew Rootes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clive Holden
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445655195
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Kent Britain's Frontline County written by Clive Holden and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into Kent's long and distinguished military defence heritage.
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750953314
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Front-Line Kent written by Michael Foley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kent has been on England's first line of defence. In all major conflicts many people in the county have lived closer to the enemy in Europe than they did to London. Much of the county's coastline has been the site of training and weapon development, which adds to the interest of military sites in this area. Michael Foley's new book delves into the long history of military Kent, from Roman forts to Martello towers, built to keep Napoleon out, from the ambitious Royal Military Canal, which cost an equivalent of GBP10 million in today's money but was abandoned after seventy years, to wartime airfields and underground Cold War installations. Illustrated with a wide range of photographs, maps, drawings, engravings and paintings, Front-Line Kent also includes location and access details for the sites that are illustrated and described. This lively and informative book will appeal to anyone interested in Kent's history, whether or not a military specialist.
Author : Mark Khan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473845165
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Kent at War, 1939–1945 written by Mark Khan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from Blitz on Kent, all aspects of life during the Second World War were experienced during in this embattled county. From the onset of the war Kent became a key part in the front line defence of Britain. Defences were built, and the Home Guard formed.With the threat of invasion receding, the county took part in the great offensive against Nazi Germany. Preparations and training took place that lead to the D-Day invasion in June 1944 and ultimate victory in 1945. This book will tell the story of the story of the County from the very beginning of the war to the end and afterwards, both from civil and military perspectives.Subjects covered are: Invasion defences, Home Guard, Dunkirk, life during wartime, D-Day, German Prisoners of War, the Americans in Kent, The Royal Navy, people and life during wartime, The RAF, soldiers in Kent regiments, training, individual studies, the military on the move: Bren Carriers, Churchill tanks, Covenanter tanks, artillery, Matilda tanks, Valentine tanks, motor bikes, lorries, lease-lend Vehicles, weapons, women in wartime Kent, VE Day and post-war Kent the legacy of the war.
Author : John Conen
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803134097
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Bombing of London 1940-41: The Blitz and its impact on the capital written by John Conen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and balanced view of what is known as the Blitz on London. The title emphasizes bombing over blitz and recognises that the meaning of ‘the Blitz’ has now acquired other general connotations and is often equated to ‘Britain in wartime’ or the spirit of carrying on.
Author : Tanya Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473887429
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Kent at War 1939–45 written by Tanya Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive account of the southern English county during WWII covers everything from the Dunkirk evacuations to the Battle of Britain and more. Located along the English Channel, the southeastern county of Kent played a significant role in the Second World War. This volume covers Kent’s many contributions—both civilian and military—throughout the conflict. The chronicle details how the Dover Patrol kept Allied shipping safe in the English Channel, as well as the preparation and aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuations of May 1940, with all of the vessels leaving from and returning to Kent ports and harbors. Kent’s numerous airfields were of vital importance during the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940. The Richborough camp, set up in 1939 at the old First World War Kitchener barracks, provided safe haven to thousands of German and Austrian Jewish refugees. This book includes never before published letters written to one of the camps residents during his stay there. Historian Tanya Wynn also discusses the county's military hospitals and pow camps, it’s Victorian Cross and George Medal winners, and the restricted areas that adorned the coast as the people of Kent battened down the hatches, knowing that they were the very first line of defense in case of a German invasion.
Author : Stuart Hylton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844150844
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Kent and Sussex 1940 written by Stuart Hylton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1940, Britain's front line against the German armies was the coast of Kent and Sussex. Across the Channel, Hitler's forces gathered, preparing for invasion, as the Home Forces struggled desperately to recover from the disaster and miracle of Dunkirk. Occupation of these islands was nearer than for almost nine hundred years. Kent and Sussex 1940, tells the story of the communities that found themselves in the front line, placing their experience within the context of huge historic events.
Author : Clive Holden
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445680742
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Kent at War written by Clive Holden and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book documents the impact of the First World War on the people of Kent, using a selection of primary sources and contemporary photographs.
Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399057936
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Battle of Britain Attack of the Eagles written by Dilip Sarkar and published by Air World. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unprecedented series exploring the big story of the Battle of Britain, renowned historian Dilip Sarkar investigates the wider context and intimate details of the epic aerial conflict in the summer of 1940 from all sides. In so doing, he gives due acknowledgement to the roles of Bomber and Coastal Commands in addition to the fabled Few of Fighter Command. This unique narrative draws upon a lifetime of research, the author having enjoyed a long relationship with survivors and the relatives of casualties; his innumerable interviews and first-hand accounts collated, in addition to privileged access to personal papers, providing essential human interest to this inspirational story. In this the third volume, Battle of Britain: Attack of the Eagles, Dilip continues to examine the fighting on a day-by-day, combat-by-combat basis between 13 and 18 August 1940. This period began on ‘Eagle Day’ and the start of the Luftwaffe’s ‘Eagle Attack’ on Fighter Command. This period of intense fighting saw the defeat of the much-vaunted Stuka dive-bomber and the great attack on north-east England on 15 August 1940. It was during the aerial combats the following day that Flight Lieutenant James Brindley Nicolson’s Victoria Cross winning action took place over Southampton. All of these actions, and many others, are critically analyzed. Through diligent research, combined with crucial official primary sources and personal papers, Dilip unravels many myths, often challenging the accepted narrative. This is not simply another dull record of combat losses and claims – far from it. Drawing upon unique first-hand accounts from a wide-range of combatants and eyewitnesses, along with Daily Home Intelligence Reports and numerous other primary sources, this book forms part of what is likely to be the first and last such comprehensively woven account of this epic air battle.
Author : G. E. Mingay
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852850425
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Land, Labour and Agriculture, 1700-1920 written by G. E. Mingay and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges and opportunities offered to British farming by the profound changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries make these years of outstanding interest to the agricultural historian. These original essays are presented to Gordon Mingay, the most distinguished historian of the Agricultural Revolution, and reflect his own interests in three central themes; landownership and landed society; rural labour; and agriculture both as a business and as a way of life.
Author : Carol J. Greenhouse
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383489
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Ethnography in Unstable Places written by Carol J. Greenhouse and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation—in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and post–Cold War climates—from the standpoints of ordinary people caught up in and having to cope with the collapse or reconfiguration of the states in which they live. Using grounded ethnographic detail to explore the challenges to the anthropological imagination that are posed by modern uncertainties, the contributors confront the ambiguities and paradoxes that exist across the spectrum of human cultures and geographies. The collection is framed by introductory and concluding chapters that highlight different dimensions of the book’s interrelated themes—agency and ethnographic reflexivity, identity and ethics, and the inseparability of political economy and interpretivism. Ethnography in Unstable Places will interest students and specialists in social anthropology, sociology, political science, international relations, and cultural studies. Contributors. Eve Darian-Smith, Howard J. De Nike, Elizabeth Faier, James M. Freeman, Robert T. Gordon, Carol J. Greenhouse, Nguyen Dinh Huu, Carroll McC. Lewin, Elizabeth Mertz, Philip C. Parnell, Nancy Ries, Judy Rosenthal, Kay B. Warren, Stacia E. Zabusky
Author : Norman Longmate
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446475778
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Island Fortress written by Norman Longmate and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Isles, it is often believed, have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years. In fact, as Norman Longmate reveals in this highly entertaining book (the successor to his acclaimed Defending the Island), foreign soldiers have landed on British soil on many occasions.In this definitive study of a long-neglected subject Norman Longmate make constant use of original sources, including contemporary eyewitness accounts. These are woven into an enthralling narrative, packed with fact - about weapons, ships, armies and fortresses - spiced with anecdote, and ranging over international and political as well as military and naval history. The result is above all an exciting story, which shows how, against all the odds, the British people managed to retain their freedom from the days of James I to those of George VI.
Author : Anthony J. Moor
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144562494X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Detling Airfield written by Anthony J. Moor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the Kentish airfield that was a station of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in World War I and the Royal Air Force (RAF) in World War II.
Author : Eve Darian-Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520216113
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Bridging Divides written by Eve Darian-Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses the Channel Tunnel between England and France to explore the shifting geographies of nationalism, postcolonialism, and legal autonomy in the formation of the European Union. It looks at regional differences in feelings about Europe and at vocabulary used in discussing the Tunnel.
Author : Victor Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901509649
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Front-Line Kent written by Victor Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Newsome
Publisher : English Heritage
ISBN 13 : 1848023391
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Hoo Peninsula Landscape written by Sarah Newsome and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hoo Peninsula is located on the north Kent coast 30 miles east of Central London. This book raises awareness of the positive contribution that the historic environment makes to the Hoo Peninsula by describing how changing patterns of land use and maritime activity over time have given this landscape and seascape its distinctive character. It uses new information, which involved historic landscape, seascape and farmstead characterisation, aerial photographic mapping and analysis, area assessment of the buildings, detailed survey of key sites and other desk-based research. It takes a thematic view of the major influences on the history and development of the Hoo Peninsula and demonstrates the role that the Peninsula plays in the national story. The book is an important step towards changing the perception that the Hoo Peninsula is an out-of-the-way area, scarred by past development, where the landscape has no heritage value and major infrastructure can be developed with minimum objection.
