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Sand, Planes and Submarines
- How Leighton Buzzard shortened the First World War
Engelsk Paperback
Sand, Planes and Submarines
- How Leighton Buzzard shortened the First World War
Engelsk Paperback

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Sand, Planes and Submarines is an unlikely title for a book about the role two small towns far from the sea played in the First World War. Yet this extraordinary account tells how Leighton Buzzard and Linslade provided the means to shorten the war. Without the sand, the big guns could not have been made for the Front; the planes allowed the Royal Flying Corps to take on the superior German air force; and the submarine nets protected not only the British fleet but also the French, Italians, Americans and Russians. The two towns were changed dramatically by the war. They ceased to be the playground of the rich from London. The army requisitioned the hundreds of thoroughbred horses that had been used by the aristocracy to hunt with the Rothschilds. Among these larger themes there are many personal stories like that of the Linslade postman and his horse, Bluebell, who took part in the last great cavalry charge of the war.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9780750983709
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0750983701
Udg. Dato:
13 nov 2017
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
231mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
13 nov 2017
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