Author: Beamish, Derek, Bennett, Harold and Hillier, John,
Title: POOLE AND WORLD WAR II.
Description: Poole Historical Trust, Poole, 1980, 1st edn., 239pp, half tone ills. and maps in text, coloured pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an illustrated record (over 100 original photographs) of World War 2 as experienced by Poole in Dorset, from the first days in the front line on the south coast of England, having BOAC's flying boat base, receiving refugees, a grand-stand seat for the Battle of Britain, the precautions against invasion, as a base for the clandestine and other raids, the preparations for Overlord, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 home front poole boac flying boats


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