Dover Books

Martin Easdown's compelling account of the German air raid on Folkestone in 1917 and its appalling aftermath is the first comprehensive history of an episode to be published. He gives a dramatic description of the event, relying heavily on the eyewitness testimony from the townspeople who were there on that fateful day. He records the experiences of the German airmen who carried out the raid and pioneered a new and terrifying method of warfare. In addition, he recounts in graphic detail similar attacks by bombers, seaplanes and Zepplins on other Kentish towns, including Dover, Ramsgate, Margate and Sheerness.

Dover has been a place of passage for over 2000 years, its Roman pharos (or lighthouse) and Norman castle witnessing the development of the town and port below them.

This fascinating compilation of over 220 photographs and other illustrations has been drawn from the author's extensive collection, and the archives of the Dover Express where he worked for forty-five years. It captures not only major historic events but also the everyday life of the town and its townspeople.

These pages contain photographs which cover the last 150 years: from welcome arches in the streets of Dover, paddle-steamers ready to make the Channel crossing, to men excavating chalk from the cliffs and the construction of the massive Admiralty Harbour. There are images of children paddling in the sea during an Edwardian summer, and, from the middle of the last century, the men of the British Expeditionary Force filling the decks of destroyers at Admiralty Pier after their rescue from Dunkirk.

Dover in The ...

Dover Castle has witnessed almost a thousand years of British history. This pocket sized book tells that story from the heights of the keep to the depths of the secret wartime tunnels that extend for over four miles inside the white cliffs.

Discover the lives of the inhabitants of the castle from its origins deep in the ghastly past, when Iron Age people built a fort made from earth; when Roman soldiers illuminated the rugged coast with a lighthouse; and when Saxons gave praise by adding a church. The story travels 900 years through time right up to the present day, highlighting the exciting, the macabre, the humorous and the dreadful along the way.