Ed Adams

Published 1st December 2022. Pre-orders will be dispatched around that date.

A detailed account of the Home Front in Ashford, Kent, during the Second World War; covering the town and associated parishes of Willesborough, Kennington, Sevington, Kingsnorth and Great Chart.

Includes never-before-seen details of:

• the lives of those in the town prior to the war;
• the emerging civil defence and ARP efforts;
• the reception of London evacuees to a place of greater safety;
• the counter-evacuation of Ashford’s most vulnerable;
• the victory of the Battle of Britain;
• the preparations for invasion and the establishment of the Ashford garrison;
• the role of the townspeople in helping the national war effort;

as well as detailed recollections of the bombs that fell, the planes that crashed and those who died and were injured at home; including the most comprehensive account yet of the town’s worst raid on 24th March 1943.

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