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Author Nick McCamley, Hard Back, 250pp, 250mm x 250mm ?24.99 (post free from www.moorebooks.co.uk) available from the usual outlets.
For me this has been a long awaited book, it describes in detail what led up to the RAF acquiring this Staffordshire Mine to use as a Bomb Store during WW2, On the morning of Monday 27th November 1944 an enormous explosion rocked the Staffordshire countryside. Near the village of Fauld a whole hilltop, an estimated two million tons of rock and debris, was blasted two thousand feet into the air leaving a crater a quarter of a mile in diameter and one hundred feet in depth. Nick had special access to mine levels and has a produced a superb photographic record from his own and historical photos most in colour.
The book includes:
? A detailed overview of RAF ammunition storage policy through the inter-war years.
?Illustrated history of the development, construction (and often the subsequent destruction) of the RAF?s five huge, architecturally breathtaking underground bomb storage depots, built in preparation for the Second World War.
?The second half of the book explains the chain of events that led up to the disaster at Fauld, describes the moments before and immediately after the explosion in graphic detail and goes on to give a definitive account of the cause of the catastrophe based upon a forensic examination of the Air Ministry Court of Inquiry records and the subsequent civilian Coroner?s Inquiry.
Mike
For me this has been a long awaited book, it describes in detail what led up to the RAF acquiring this Staffordshire Mine to use as a Bomb Store during WW2, On the morning of Monday 27th November 1944 an enormous explosion rocked the Staffordshire countryside. Near the village of Fauld a whole hilltop, an estimated two million tons of rock and debris, was blasted two thousand feet into the air leaving a crater a quarter of a mile in diameter and one hundred feet in depth. Nick had special access to mine levels and has a produced a superb photographic record from his own and historical photos most in colour.
The book includes:
? A detailed overview of RAF ammunition storage policy through the inter-war years.
?Illustrated history of the development, construction (and often the subsequent destruction) of the RAF?s five huge, architecturally breathtaking underground bomb storage depots, built in preparation for the Second World War.
?The second half of the book explains the chain of events that led up to the disaster at Fauld, describes the moments before and immediately after the explosion in graphic detail and goes on to give a definitive account of the cause of the catastrophe based upon a forensic examination of the Air Ministry Court of Inquiry records and the subsequent civilian Coroner?s Inquiry.
Mike