During World War II, a secret department was formed within Britain's Air Ministry. It co-ordinated a strategy to defeat German bombing using deception. With the help of leading technicians from the film industry, ingeniously designed decoy towns, airfields and military bases were built throughout the UK. This work presents a detailed study of these bombing decoys, both at war - through their design, patterning and operations - and at peace - through their fragmentory survival as enigmatic features of the modern landscape. The book has been compiled in support of English Heritage's initiatives to study and preserve Britain's wartime remains.
- ISBN10 0413745708
- ISBN13 9780413745705
- Publish Date 7 September 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 July 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English