Due to its location on the coast and being a city dominated by industry and maritime, Middlesbrough was always going to be a target for the Luftwaffe. What we did see was the city being under regular attack throughout the war in an attempt to undermine the morale of the community, but also in the hope of hampering the British war effort. In the classic style of the Towns & Cities in World War Two series, we learn how the war affects all aspects of life, from having to rebuild after air raids and losing loved ones from the attacks. Seeing women having to work at the various factories and workplaces to replace the men who were having to go off to war. Then you have the various small organisations having to pick up and help in an hour of need and daily life structures being compromised and changed as everyone has to deal with some aspect of the war on the home front. As I have said before this series is, in my opinion, fantastic and the author here Dr Craig Armstrong has done another brilliant.. Read more
The History Fella

This was a really good read from start to finish, it is so good to read more books about Welsh figures, especially when the book can be written by Phil Carradice, who I know writes a lot about Welsh history. His books are always so clear and easy to read, when you are not Welsh the language and the names can feel a little intimidating but you don’t feel that with a Carradice book. Excellently explained story and facts, certainly a book I would champion to one and all, and I would love to see more books about Welsh leaders and heroes. Read the full review [link=https://thehistoryfella.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-welsh-braveheart.html]here[/link]
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"The illustrations chosen include some excellent studies of the time, that used as the tailpiece showing No 3 threading a slate train through Corris being particularly apt. Well indexed, and including a bibliography it is a well-produced book that I can recommend to those interested in narrow gauge railways, especially those of North Wales."
John New, The Stephenson Locomotive Society Journal, March/April 2022

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