The Village that Died for England - Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Repeater Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Patrick Wright
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 51mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	650
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-913462-52-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-913462-52-8
Barcode:	9781913462529

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