Hastings at War 1939-1945

by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

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Hastings was often bombed during the Second World War. John Bristow, describing a raid on 23 May 1943 says 'There was a god-almighty explosion and we went into the passage by The Havelock pub and we dived onto the ground and lay there looking out before a bomb hit what was the old Royal Oak Hotel. Along by Woolworth's there was a car going by and it was set up into the air by the bomb and over and over. While we lay there, there was another terrific explosion down the side of Plummer's and I'll never forget seeing...Read more
  • ISBN10 1860776477
  • ISBN13 9781860776472
  • Publish Date 1 September 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher The History Press Ltd
  • Imprint Phillimore & Co Ltd