Victorian London Through Time

Victorian London Through Time

The Woodhead Route

The Woodhead Route

The West Country's Last Line of Defence

Taunton Stop Line

Publication Date15th April 2017

Book FormatPaperback

pages96

Illustrations80

Height234

Width165

Uncovers the remains of nearly 400 Home Guard emplacements scattered across Somerset, Dorset and Devon.
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ISBN
9781445662503
As Hitler’s Germany spread her wings across Europe in the late 1930’s, nations across the continent began preparing their own defences. The threat of invasion on home soil seemed unlikely at first, but as the relentless Nazi war machine steamrollered country after country, by June 1940 a series of ‘stop-lines’ were created across Britain in an effort to delay any Nazi invasion. This book looks at the role and locations of the Taunton stop line, a fifty-mile defensive ‘wall’ spanning Somerset, Devon and Dorset, and its lasting legacy that can still be seen today across the idyllic rolling countryside of the South-West.
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