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Defending Essex - The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present (Paperback)
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Defending Essex - The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present (Paperback)
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For 2,000 years Essex, the county with the longest coast-line in
England and dominating the eastern approaches to London, has been
in the front-line against foreign invasion, from the Romans to the
Spanish Armada to the two World Wars. It has also been involved in
civil disorder, from the Anarchy and the Peasants' Revolt to the
English Civil War. Many reminders of these scenes of conflict may
be seen in the landscape - Iron Age forts, a Roman walled town,
medieval castles, strong-houses and homestead moats, coastal
fortifications from Napoleonic times and earlier, and Victorian
barracks and the drill halls of the Volunteers. From the twentieth
century there are still more sites: military airfields from the
First World War and Battle of Britain fighter airfields, radar
sites and later bomber bases from the Second. Anti-invasion
defenses line the coast, linear defenses criss-cross the landscape,
and AA sites are everywhere to be found. Taking the story all the
way up to the nuclear threat of the Cold War, this guide will
interest residents and visitors alike.
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