Conflict Across the Strait : A Battery Commander's Story of Kent's Defences 1939-1945

CONFLICT ACROSS THE STRAIT A Battery Commander's Story of Kent's Defences 1939-45 Colonel B. E. Arnold T. D. Crabwell Publications, Dover 1982 First edition ISBN 0906124069 174pp Illustrated. This lavishly illustrated memoir of the defences around the Kent coast especially at Dover 'Gateway of England' is an authoritive account written by a Battery Commander of the fortifications and defences erected to forestall any invasion from the enemy who were massed just a few short miles away across the English Channel. Included in this account is his impressions of the evacuation of Dunkirk and the return of the flotilla of little boats as they repeatedly crossed and recrossed the hostile strait to rescue the BEF from the beaches. Many of these photographs are from the author's own collection and are published here for the first time. This copy is in FINE condition with no markings or inscriptions The unclipped dustwrapper has a few creases in the lamination especially to the front panel otherwise NEAR FINE. Ref J5.…