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Sand, Planes and Submarines - How Leighton Buzzard shortened the First World War (Paperback)
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Sand, Planes and Submarines - How Leighton Buzzard shortened the First World War (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 240
You Save R51 (9%)
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Sand, Planes and Submarines is an unlikely title for a book about
the role two small towns far from the sea played in the First World
War. Yet this extraordinary account tells how Leighton Buzzard and
Linslade provided the means to shorten the war. Without the sand,
the big guns could not have been made for the Front; the planes
allowed the Royal Flying Corps to take on the superior German air
force; and the submarine nets protected not only the British fleet
but also the French, Italians, Americans and Russians. The two
towns were changed dramatically by the war. They ceased to be the
playground of the rich from London. The army requisitioned the
hundreds of thoroughbred horses that had been used by the
aristocracy to hunt with the Rothschilds. Among these larger themes
there are many personal stories like that of the Linslade postman
and his horse, Bluebell, who took part in the last great cavalry
charge of the war.
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