Chelmsford at War: a chronicle of the county town of Essex during the Second World War
Author: Andrew J Begent ISBN: 0 86025 497 6	£9.95 at Parish Chest

Presented in the form of a newspaper containing news items from 1939 to 1946, including mobilisation, air attacks, the Home Front, Home Guard, National Fire Service, rationing, G I brides, peace celebrations and local politics. Bombs, barrage balloons, aircraft, incendiaries, air raid shelters, personal reminiscences... what it was like to live in a target town in the 1940s. There is an appendix listing all those Chelmsfordians killed in the conflict. The index contains over 1,500 entries.

80 pages, many photographs, numerous maps

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