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Andrew Rootes

Autor(a) de Front Line County

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Front Line County, Kent at War, 1939-45, Andrew Rootes, 1980, St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, 208pp, photos, maps, Appendices, Sources, and index ISBN 0709034733
A ‘biography’ of Kent County prewar through the end of hostilities. I learned a great deal about how the war was imposed upon the civilian populace, in terms of casualties and damage in that county. I knew there were bombings, but had missed on how indiscriminate it was and I did not realize the number of civilians who were killed by cross-channel artillery and the flying bombs and missiles.
The author discussed the evacuation plans and implementation that by 1942, children largely had returned home. The author also outlined the civil defense plans the preparations made ready to conduct a quasi-underground response to airborne and seaborne landings by the Germans.
All in all, this was an interesting book, although it seemed to get bogged down in many chapters outlining how many raid each day, how many people were killed, wounded and made homeless, and how many other buildings were destroyed. I understand the people who endured this horror need to have been remembered or honored, but I felt the repetitiveness of it detracted overall from the manuscript.
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3
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