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100 1 $aHernon, Ian,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFortress Britain :$ball the invasions and incursions since 1066 /$cIan Hernon.
264 1 $aStroud :$bThe History Press,$c2013.
300 $a272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (black and white) ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 260-266) and index.
520 $aThe British have not been backward in coming forward when it comes to aggressive visits abroad. But it hasn't all been one way as shown in this dramatic history of the survival of an island race over 900 years - sometimes, surprisingly, against the odds.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 1. After Hastings -- 2. King Louis of England? -- 3. The Hundred Years' War -- 4. The pretenders -- 5. Henry's castles and the invasion of the Isle of Wight -- 6. The Spanish Armada -- 7. Mousehole -- 8. The Barbary pirates -- 9. The Battle of the Medway -- 10. The 'Glorious' Invasion -- 11. The French Armada of 1692 -- 12. The Jacobite invasion of England -- 13. The Choiseul plan -- 14. John Paul Jones -- 15. The Battle of Fishguard -- 16. The Napoleon threat and Britain's "Great Terror" -- 17. Threats from America and Germany: 1815-1939 -- 18. Operation Sea Lion -- 19. The Battle of Graveney Marsh -- 20. The occupation of the Channel islands -- Conclusions.
505 0 $aAppendix 1: Chroniclers' accounts of the 1377 raids -- Appendix 2: Later history of castles and fortifications featured -- Appendix 3: Samuel Pepys diary extracts -- Appendix 4: Martello Towers -- Appendix 5: Pillboxes.
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