Defending Hampshire: The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present

by Mike Osborne

Overview

For 2000 years, Hampshire has been at the heart of Britain's defences against foreign invasion, as well as being heavily involved in civil conflict. Through Roman forts, medieval castles, fortified manors and moats, Victorian drill halls, military airfields, anti-invasion defences, radar sites, bunkers, and nuclear attack monitoring posts, this book describes the structures put in place to defend Hampshire's inhabitants against enemies from both home and abroad.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780752459868
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mike Osborne (Author) : Portchester Castle, Calshot Castle, Fort Brockhurst, Fort Cumberland, Aldershot Military Museum, The D-Day Museum @ Portsmouth, The Royal Armouries Museum @ Fort Nelson, The Royal Naval Museum Shop @ Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Abbreviations 9

Introduction 13

1 Fortifications in Hampshire prior to 1066 15

2 The Early Medieval Period (c. 1000-1300) 27

3 The Later Medieval and Tudor Period (c. 1300-1600) 42

4 The Stuart and Georgian Periods (c. 1600-1815) 60

5 The Victorian Period (c. 1815-1914) 83

6 The First World War (1914-18) 116

7 The Years of Rearmament (1919-39) 133

8 The Second World War (1939-45) 150

9 The Cold War (1946-93) 224

Appendix 1 Medieval and Tudor Monuments 243

Appendix 2 Hampshire Airfields 246

Appendix 3 Gazetteers of Selected Site Categories 259

Bibliography 276

Index 280