Action Stations #9 South & S.East by C Ashworth: 1985 1st Edition Hardback

Author: Chris Ashworth

Publisher: Patrick Stephens Ltd.

Pagination: 313

Format: Hardback + DJ

Condition: Very good, with slight fading along spine.Includes cuttings from original owner

1st Edition.

This penultimate volume of this best selling  series is undoubtedly one for which many people  have been waiting, covering as it does, not  only the principal Battle of Britain airfields  but also the many Advanced Landing  Grounds which were prepared for the  invasion of Normandy. Airfields such as  Manston (which the author first saw from  the front turret of a Wellington in 1944),  Eastchurch, Eastleigh, Hawkinge, Lympne  and Tangmere thus play an inevitably  prominent role in this volume but, because  of the large, crescent-shaped area it covers,  there are many other famous airfields with  long and fascinating histories included.  Everyone has heard of Greenham  Common, of course, but to prove that little  changes, in 1914 Kingsnorth, in Kent, was  a target for the Suffragettes! Aldermaston  and Blackbushe, Detling and Dunsfold,  Farnborough and Ford, Gosport, Lasham  and Lee-on-Solent, Lydd and Odiham,  Thorney lsland and Westhampnett are  other names which spring immediately to  mind, all very much ‘action stations’ by  anyone's standards.  Illustrated with photographs and maps, and  organised in the series style with map  directions for finding each airfield, whether  still operational or disused, and with  introductory chapters and an index.