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The pillbox is the iconic defence structure of the Second World War. Surprisingly however there has never been a history and systematic description of pillboxes and related structures. After covering renaissance caponiers, Martello Towers, Boer War blockhouses and the pillboxes of the First World War, Mike Osborne describes the development of defence structures in the Second World War and analyses the different pillbox types: hexagonal, square, rectangular, trapezoidal, circular, rounded, pentagonal, octagonal and other polygonal types. Also comprehensively covered are: section posts, Seagull trenches and concrete trenches; gun-houses and turrets; Exdo posts; battle Headquarters; spigot-mortar emplacements; converted buildings; Home Guard explosives and inflammable stores.
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Mike Osborne was the Regional Co-ordinator for the eastern counties Defence of Britain Project. He has also worked on publications covering twentieth-century defences more specifically in the East Midlands and Cambridgeshire. He is the author of the best-selling Defending Britain: Twentieth-Century Military Structures in the Landscape (2004).
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- PublisherThe History Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0752443291
- ISBN 13 9780752443294
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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