Hell's Corner 1940. Kent becomes the Battlefield of Britain. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Rare and modern books
Boorman H.R. Pratt
Kent Messenger, Maidstone,
1942
Hell's Corner 1940. Kent becomes the Battlefield of Britain. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Rare and modern books
Boorman H.R. Pratt
Kent Messenger, Maidstone,
1942
29.90 €
(Devon,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1942
- Author
- Boorman H.R. Pratt
- Publishers
- Kent Messenger, Maidstone
- Keyword
- military, ww2, wwii, home front, blitz, battle of britain, topography, kent, thanet, pratt boorman
- Languages
- English
Description
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 117 plates on 62; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at edges and with loss at upper half of backstrip. Uncommon collection of valuable photographs, taken mostly by 'Kent Messenger' newspaper staff, with vivid supporting text based mainly on eye-witness accounts. An excellent summary of the nature and extent of the county's damage due to enemy action. SCARCE. Bennett, p.369; Enser, p.244.
