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The Village That Died for England

The Village That Died for England The Strange Story of Tyneham

Paperback (07 Mar 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Extinction made the Dorset village of Tyneham famous. When Churchill evacuated it to make a tank gunnery he vowed that the people could return. Attlee broke that promise and Tyneham became a symbol of unrewarded patriotic sacrifice.

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Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099207719
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 942.336
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 420
Weight: 322g
Height: 200mm
Width: 130mm