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The West Country's last line of defence: Taunton stop line (2017)

Andrew Powell-Thomas

Defence of the West: some riddles of war and peace (1950)

Basil Henry Liddell Hart (Sir)

The forgotten dead: the true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day (2014)

Ken Small

Evie's allies (2016)

Kitty Danton

Clear the way!: a history of the 146th Engineer Combat Battalion from Normandy to Berlin (2014)

Richard T. Bass

Inside Dalditch Camp: a wartime history of the Royal Marines on Woodbury Common (2019)

Simon J. W. Fogg

Eleven months in Malaya: September 1945 to August 1946 (2005)

R. W. Holder

Evercreech kept calm and carried on: 1939-1945 (2021)

Gillian Lindsay

The Short straw: an account of survival: Java, Singapore and Borneo (2020)

Steve Mockridge

Exercise Tiger: the D-Day practice landing tragedies uncovered (2012)

Richard T. Bass

Brigades of Neptune: a history of the US Army engineer special brigades (2014)

Richard T. Bass

Worle's home guard: the 58 men who were our Dad's Army (2010)

Raye Green

Courage was not enough: No. 218 (Bomber) squadron, Weston-super-Mare's own, 1936-1942 (2020)

Steve Smith

The Taunton stop-line (1992)

John Hellis

Spirits of the sand: the story of the United States Army assault training centre in North Devon (2014)

Richard T. Bass

The Taunton stop line and its camouflage: the work of Oliver Messel and others in wartime Somerset (2020)

David Hunt

Yeovil in the second world war (2020)

Jack Sweet

Make this the last war: the future of the United Nations (1943)

Michael Straight

Bideford in the Second World War (2021)

Peter Christie

Preserving the flame (2008)

Colin Burbidge

1939 to 1945 diary of Worle in World War II: day to day factual journal (2013)

Raye Green

Britain's 'brown babies': the stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War (2019)

Lucy Bland

Churchill: a Somerset village (1941)

Alan Dent

The day they took the children: illustrated personal memories of Britain's 3,500,000 evacuees (1989)

Ben Wicks

From air raid to first aid: the history of Wedmore St. John Ambulance (2023)

Tony Cousins

Exercise Tiger: casualty cover up revealed (2017)

Richard T. Bass

Miles from home: evacuees in Timberscombe during the Second World War (2022)

Alan Hines

The Second World War rocket battery at Tynings Gate, Cheddar, and the use of rocket batteries to improve deception at bombing decoys (2019)

C. J. Webster

Avon past: the joint journal of Avon Archaeological Council and Avon Local History Association (1982) [6, Spring 1982]

We'll fight them on the beaches (1989)

Six of Monty's men (2011)

Adrian Stewart

Hill Brow preparatory school for boys: Eastbourne, Sussex:1893 to 1940 and Brent Knoll, Somerset: 1940-1966 (2020)

Chris Newman

Down the garden path: or child of the 'thirties' (2001)

Sheila Brook

HMS Mendip: '...a happy...fighting ship' (1984)

Mabs Holland

A rank outsider (c. 1980)

George Herbert

Frome at war 1939-45 (2020)

David Lassman

Travels with Simon: the adventures of Trooper John Anthony Pope 318377 with and without his horse Simon (2022)

Jonathan Pope

The Boys (2015)

John Lowe

The sword and a piano: the recollections of a retired officer (c.1988)

James L. Brind (Brigadier)

Britain's 'brown babies': the stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War (2019)

Lucy Bland

The 4th Somerset LDV (Home Guard) Holcombe Platoon

Cyril Treasure

Escape to Somerset

Malcolm Rigby

Another Backwell evacuee

Bert Pryke

A time to remember (1989)

Ted Marsh

Carefree innocence of a wartime rural childhood (2007)

Graham Jennings

Suggested reading list for anti-invasion defences and the Home Guard in Somerset (2005)

David Hunt

Evacuees

Lynn Hooper

Evacuees in Frome during the Second World War

Frank Harbud

[Colfe's School] (2004)

John Garrett

Memories of a London evacuee (2005)

George Enever