Dover Castle: A Frontline Fortress and its Wartime Tunnels Guidebook
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Dover Castle and Dover Castle: A Frontline Fortress and its Wartime Tunnels Guidebooks
These guidebooks, packed with plans, maps, historic photos, reconstruction drawings and eyewitness accounts, tell the story of this spectacular site overlooking the shortest sea crossing between Britain and mainland Europe. This famous castle was garrisoned continuously from 1066 until 1958 and has always played a key role in the defence of the nation at the most dangerous periods of its history. Dover Castle gives a full history and tour of the site, with a focus on its medieval history and the dramatic sieges that threatened it. A Frontline Fortress gives a full overview, with a focus on its network of tunnels hidden deep within the famous white cliffs, and their role in warfare from the Middle Ages, through the First and Second World Wars and into the Cold War.
These guidebooks, packed with plans, maps, historic photos, reconstruction drawings and eyewitness accounts, tell the story of this spectacular site overlooking the shortest sea crossing between Britain and mainland Europe. This famous castle was garrisoned continuously from 1066 until 1958 and has always played a key role in the defence of the nation at the most dangerous periods of its history. Dover Castle gives a full history and tour of the site, with a focus on its medieval history and the dramatic sieges that threatened it. A Frontline Fortress gives a full overview, with a focus on its network of tunnels hidden deep within the famous white cliffs, and their role in warfare from the Middle Ages, through the First and Second World Wars and into the Cold War.