The Village That Died for England The Strange Story of Tyneham |
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| Author:
| Wright, Patrick |
| ISBN: | 978-0-224-03886-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1995 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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It was extinction that made Tyneham famous. The fields of the village on the Dorset coast were ideal tank country and when Churchill evacuated it, he vowed that the people could return after the war. Attlee broke the promise and Tyneham became a symbol of unrewarded patriotic sacrifice, or a rural English idyll destroyed by the state.
It was extinction that made Tyneham famous. The fields of the village on the Dorset coast were ideal tank country and when Churchill evacuated it, he vowed that the people could return after the war. Attlee broke the promise and Tyneham became a symbol of unrewarded patriotic sacrifice, or a rural English idyll destroyed by the state.