Requisitioned : the British country house in the Second World War
2014, First Edition. London : Aurum Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #460945
Physical description; 208 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm. Notes; Illustrated endpapers. Contents: Arundel Castle, Sussex — Badminton, Gloucestershire — Bentley Priory, Middlesex — Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire — Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire — Castle Howard, Yorkshire — Chatsworth, Derbyshire — Eaton Hall, Cheshire — Egginton Hall, Derbyshire — Hatfield House, Hertfordshire — Lowther Castle, Westmorland — Mentmore, Buckinghamshire — Penrhyn Castle, Caernarvonshire — Rosneath Castle, Dunbartonshire — Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire — Southwick House, Hampshire — Tyneham House, Dorset — Wentworth Woodhouse, West Riding of Yorkshire — Wilton House, Wiltshire — Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects Great Britain. Requisitions, Military Great Britain History 20th century. Country homes Great Britain History 20th century. Historic buildings Great Britain History 20th century. Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952.
Price: €28.00