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Defending Essex: The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present

English

By (author): Mike Osborne

For 2,000 years Essex, the county with the longest coast-line in England and dominating the eastern approaches to London, has been in the front-line against foreign invasion, from the Romans to the Spanish Armada to the two World Wars. It has also been involved in civil disorder, from the Anarchy and the Peasants Revolt to the English Civil War. Many reminders of these scenes of conflict may be seen in the landscape - Iron Age forts, a Roman walled town, medieval castles, strong-houses and homestead moats, coastal fortifications from Napoleonic times and earlier, and Victorian barracks and the drill halls of the Volunteers. From the twentieth century there are still more sites: military airfields from the First World War and Battle of Britain fighter airfields, radar sites and later bomber bases from the Second. Anti-invasion defenses line the coast, linear defenses criss-cross the landscape, and AA sites are everywhere to be found. Taking the story all the way up to the nuclear threat of the Cold War, this guide will interest residents and visitors alike.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Feb 2013
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780752488349

About Mike Osborne

Mike Osborne has been recording these structures for 30 years and for the duration of the Defence of Britain Project was its volunteer co-ordinator in the eastern counties.

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