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The Village that Died for England
It was extinction that made Tyneham famous. The fields of the village on the Dorset coast were ideal tank country and when Churchill evacuated it, he vowed that the people could return after the war. Attlee broke the promise and Tyneham became a symbol of unrewarded patriotic sacrifice, or a rural English idyll destroyed by the state.
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The Forgotten Village
‘I would give this book ten stars if I could. I read it within two days and just could not put it down... A real page turner... Heart-wrenching and just fabulous. I can usually guess the ending of most books, but not this one’ Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Village That Died for England
A reissue of Patrick Wright's 1995 classic about the military takeover of the village of Tyneham, with a new introduction taking in Brexit and a new wave of British nationalism. 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 sa...
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An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present
A history of the military use of the landscape and the rise of military environmentalism through the twentieth century.
Tyneham With Worbarrow Then & Now
In 1943 the villagers of Tyneham and Worbarrow on Dorset's Jurassic coast were given notice to leave their homes to allow for military training ahead of the D-Day landings. They were never allowed to return. Today the remains of ancient cottages stand in tribute to the sacrifice that was made more than 70 years ago.
