Beaches, Fields, Streets, and Hills – Now Available for Download

Submitted by Seren Langley on Mon, 2009-09-07 10:06
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RR144 Beaches

The anti-invasion landscapes of England, 1940

by William Foot with a foreword by Professor Richard Holmes

This highly popular volume sold out just six weeks after publication in 2006 and presents the results of a two-year project funded by English Heritage. The introduction provides an overview of the whole subject, and sets out the differing types of defence works, the various strategies of defence, and the resources available for study. It also seeks to dispel various misconceptions concerning the nature of these defences and their purpose. The volume contains maps showing the defence works for each of the 67 areas studied, this book is now available as a download via the CBA’s ArchLib service, with individual chapters available at £4 each.

Info: CBA Research Report 144, ISBN: 978-1-1902771532 (1902771532), 658pp, 335 illustrations, Archlib.

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