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Hastings at War 1939-1945

Af: Nathan Dylan Goodwin Engelsk Paperback

Hastings at War 1939-1945

Af: Nathan Dylan Goodwin Engelsk Paperback
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Hastings was often bombed during the Second World War. John Bristow, describing a raid on 23 May 1943 says ''There was a god-almighty explosion and we went into the passage by The Havelock pub and we dived onto the ground and lay there looking out before a bomb hit what was the old Royal Oak Hotel. Along by Woolworth''s there was a car going by and it was set up into the air by the bomb and over and over. While we lay there, there was another terrific explosion down the side of Plummer''s and I''ll never forget seeing a huge lump of yellow coloured masonry coming over an land on the tram wires...'' This experience is one of more than forty people''s memories, cleverly incorporated by the author into his vivid account of what Hastings endured when it was a ''front-line'' town - and of its great defiance and fortitude in the face of the enemy. He tells how Hastings folk coped with the daily wartime hardships of blackout, rationing, the billeting of evacuees, the evacuation of the town, constant fear of invasion, and the relentless bombing raids, day and night, leaving in their wake a trail of death, destruction and the apprehension of where and when the next attack would come.

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Hastings was often bombed during the Second World War. John Bristow, describing a raid on 23 May 1943 says ''There was a god-almighty explosion and we went into the passage by The Havelock pub and we dived onto the ground and lay there looking out before a bomb hit what was the old Royal Oak Hotel. Along by Woolworth''s there was a car going by and it was set up into the air by the bomb and over and over. While we lay there, there was another terrific explosion down the side of Plummer''s and I''ll never forget seeing a huge lump of yellow coloured masonry coming over an land on the tram wires...'' This experience is one of more than forty people''s memories, cleverly incorporated by the author into his vivid account of what Hastings endured when it was a ''front-line'' town - and of its great defiance and fortitude in the face of the enemy. He tells how Hastings folk coped with the daily wartime hardships of blackout, rationing, the billeting of evacuees, the evacuation of the town, constant fear of invasion, and the relentless bombing raids, day and night, leaving in their wake a trail of death, destruction and the apprehension of where and when the next attack would come.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 160
ISBN-13: 9781860776472
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1860776477
Kategori: Europæisk historie
Udg. Dato: 1 sep 2010
Længde: 9mm
Bredde: 171mm
Højde: 245mm
Forlag: The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 sep 2010
Forfatter(e): Nathan Dylan Goodwin
Forfatter(e) Nathan Dylan Goodwin

Kategori Europæisk historie

ISBN-13 9781860776472

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 160

Udgave

Længde 9mm

Bredde 171mm

Højde 245mm

Udg. Dato 1 sep 2010

Oplagsdato 1 sep 2010

Forlag The History Press Ltd

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