Britain Under Shellfire: Long Range Shelling of the Dover Area 1940-42 - Softcover

Illingworth, Frank

 
9781474535793: Britain Under Shellfire: Long Range Shelling of the Dover Area 1940-42
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474535798 ISBN 13: 9781474535793
Publisher: Naval & Military Press, 2022

Synopsis

The town of Dover was in the crosshairs for much of the war; this work covers the time when a cross-channel invasion of the British Isles was a very real threat. The narrative focuses in anecdotal style on the effect the long-range German bombardment had on the civilian population.

By September 1940, nine German batteries had been established on the French coast facing Dover, and led to this stretch of the Channel being nicknamed Hellfire Corner and to 3,059 alerts, 216 civilian deaths and damage to 10,056 premises in the Dover area.

The Strait of Dover was strategically important because it is the narrowest part of the English Channel. Batteries in France attacked shipping as well as bombarding the coastal towns and military installations.


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Publisher
Naval & Military Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1474535798
ISBN 13 
9781474535793
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
70