OUT NOW - the new eBook The Bombing Of Bodmin. Full details available here:
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The Bodmin Stop Line was a defensive line from Padstow on the north Cornish coast through Wadebridge, Bodmin and Lostwithiel to Fowey on the south Cornish coast. The first pillboxes, roadblocks and gun batteries were built in the summer of 1940 and construction continued through the year into 1941. Not all of what was planned was actually built.
This video-book style presentation looking at the history of the Bodmin Stop Line and seeing what remains today focuses on the anti-tank island of Bodmin, a strategic and military town on the main A30 through Cornwall. It also looks at three of the Auxiliary Units set up either side of the line. It uses historical photographs and film footage, archive documents, maps and eyewitness statements to examine the defences of the line. A full list of historical sources and music credits are given at the end of the last video in the series.
The Bodmin Stop Line is the setting for the historical novel No Small Stir - currently the only published work on the Line.
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The series is made to honour all those who served to defend the cause of freedom and democracy and remember those who gave their lives that we may live freely today.
Whether you are here for the history or just to see the locations used in the novel, enjoy! Make sure you have watched the Introduction and Parts One and Two as well. Part Four will be published on You Tube in a few months time when we will examine the defences in the Fowey Valley focusing on the anti-tank island of Lostwithiel.
Thanks for reading and for watching.
