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Dorset's Military Heritage (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 920
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Dorset's Military Heritage (Paperback)
Series: Military Heritage
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List price R485
Loot Price R392
Discovery Miles 3 920
You Save R93 (19%)
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The making of Dorset’s military heritage has been a dramatic,
brutal, and often turbulent affair. From the time of the Durotriges
tribes and their spectacular Iron Age strongholds, to the more
modern sea forts and blast-proof nuclear bunkers of the Cold War,
Dorset’s landscape has been shaped by generations of defensive
countermeasures. Successive and bloody invasions by Roman,
Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman forces have paved the way for
revolution, civil uprising, insurrection and rebellions that
history defines as the Peasants’ Revolt, the Swing and Monmouth
Rebellions, the rise of the Dorset Clubmen, the Anarchy and English
Civil Wars. In Tudor times the ships of Elizabeth I’s navy
dropped anchor in Dorset’s waters before engaging the Spanish
Armada off Portland. Men of the local volunteers, militias,
yeomanry, and Dorsetshire’s Regiment of Foot have fought bravely
and with distinction at home and abroad, from the Peninsular War to
South Africa, and through two world wars. The Royal Flying Corps
and its successor the Royal Air Force played vital roles in
defending the nation, and during the Second World War their
presence proved invaluable in the planning and execution of
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northern France.
Military historian, battlefield guide and former soldier Dean
Hollands writes passionately about Britain’s military heritage
and this book will interest anyone keen to know more about
Dorset’s remarkable military history.
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