AA COMMAND by Dobinson, Colin ISBN 0413765407
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This text, commissioned to support English Heritage's initiatives to preserve England's wartime remains, draws on original documents and first-hand accounts to tell the story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences on the home front during World War II.
The bomber', said Stanley Baldwin in 1932, 'will always get through'. AA Command is the story of one attempt to prove a politician wrong. Drawing upon a wealth of original documents and first-hand accounts, it tells the story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences on the home front during the Second World War: in the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, and the Luftwaffe's cruel campaigns against cathedral cities and coastal resorts. But it does more. Commissioned to support English Heritage's initiatives to preserve England's wartime remains, AA Command is also a study of the everyday places where the battle was fought. Thousands of gun batteries were built during the war. By exploring their design and pattering, AA Command offers a new perspective of Britain's defence geography and rediscovers the sites which were home to hundreds of thousands of men and - controversially - of women. As the second volume in the series Monuments of War it makes a powerful case for selected examples to be preserved as historical monuments.
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[edit] Title
AA COMMAND
[edit] Author
Dobinson, Colin
[edit] ISBN
0413765407
[edit] Published
27/09/2001
[edit] Publisher
Methuen
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
25 (GBP)
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25 (GBP)
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