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Defending Cambridgeshire - The Military Landscape from Prehistory to Present (Paperback, New)
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Defending Cambridgeshire - The Military Landscape from Prehistory to Present (Paperback, New)
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List price R585
Loot Price R526
Discovery Miles 5 260
You Save R59 (10%)
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Throughout history, Cambridgeshire (including Huntingdon and
Peterborough) has figured in many of the conflicts which have
shaped our nation. Doomed Roman legionaries marched from Longthorpe
to defeat by Boudicca's Iceni; Saxons and Danes fought over the
edges of the Danelaw; the Normans came this way to crush Hereward's
Fenland resistance; in the Civil War it provided the defended
frontier between Parliamentarian and Royalist; in Napoleonic times
French prisoners of war were incarcerated here; and in the
twentieth century its flat expanses were home to numerous airfields
and missile bases. This book describes the function and purpose of
these defensive structures and reveals the evidence which many of
these major events left on the ground: the earthworks of hill
forts, medieval castles and moats; the masonry of later forts and
strong-houses; drill halls and militia barracks; and the lines of
anti-invasion defences from 1940.
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