Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced
they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and
turning it into a firing range for tanks in preparation for D-Day.
The residents of the village of Tyneham loyally packed up their
things and filed out of their homes into temporary accommodation,
yet Tyneham refused to die. Although it was never returned to its
pre-war occupants and owners, Tyneham would persist through a long
and extraordinary afterlife in the English imagination. It was said
that Churchill himself had promised that the villagers would be
able to return once the war was over, and that the post-war Labour
government was responsible for the betrayal of that pledge. Both
the accusation and the sense of grievance would reverberate through
many decades after that. Back in print and with a brand new
introduction, this book explores how Tyneham came to be converted
into a symbol of posthumous England, a patriotic community betrayed
by the alleged humiliations of post-war national history. Both
celebrated and reviled at the time of its first publication in
1995, The Village that Died for England is indispensable reading
for anyone trying to understand where Brexit came from - and where
it might be leading us.
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