Author: BOORMAN H.R. Pratt
Title: Hell's Corner 1940. Kent becomes the Battlefield of Britain. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Kent Messenger, Maidstone,, [1942]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 117 plates on 62; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at edges and with loss at upper half of backstrip. Uncommon collection of valuable photographs, taken mostly by 'Kent Messenger' newspaper staff, with vivid supporting text based mainly on eye-witness accounts. An excellent summary of the nature and extent of the county's damage due to enemy action. SCARCE. Bennett, p.369; Enser, p.244.

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, home front, blitz, battle of britain, topography, kent, thanet, pratt boorman


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