Ed Adams

Published 13th July 2024.

A year-by-year account of the Home Front in Cranbrook and Sissinghurst, Kent, during the Second World War.

Includes never-before-seen details of:

• the lives of those in the parish prior to the war;
• the emerging civil defence efforts, including ARP and the Home Guard;
• the reception of London evacuees to a place of greater safety;
• the victory of the Battle of Britain;
• the preparations for invasion and the underground British resistance;
• the movement towards post-war social reform;

as well as detailed recollections of the bombs that fell, the planes that crashed and those who lost their lives, at home and abroad.

A tale of intrigue, devastation, loss, resolve, bravery and humour, Cranbrook at War is the complete and untold story of the local people who lived through the most desperate struggle of modern times.