Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Dartmoor 3. Castlemartin 4. Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) 5. Tyneham 6. Sennybridge Training Area (SENTA) 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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A history of the military use of the landscape and the rise of military environmentalism through the twentieth century.

About the Author

Marianna Dudley is an environmental historian who has held research fellowships at the Library of Congress, Washington, US and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany. She is based at the University of Bristol, UK.

Reviews

Dudley weaves a narrative through the individual stories of the largest training areas and spaces in southern England and Wales to provide an informed and highly readable account of military environmental history behind the frontline. This valuable contribution will be of direct interest to environmental historians, but will also appeal to geographers, planners and historians of the military as they seek to understand how military activities shape and affect wider activities, environments and landscapes.
*Professor Rachel Woodward, Newcastle University, UK*

Marianna Dudley's study uncovers the history of a landscape that has been largely neglected by historians: Britain's military sites. Taking into account broader social and environmental transformations, this book makes the surprising discovery that military activities are about conservation as well as destruction... Dudley's study is environmental history at its very best.
*Christof Mauch, Director, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany*

Marianna Dudley has presented us with her seminal history of British military training areas from 1945 onwards … In its essence, Dudley’s interdisciplinarily conceived monograph is the “finest” kind of field study … Dudley’s comprehensive collection of data and materials pertaining to the state of the natural world in the militarized areas have put the flora and fauna of these hermetically sealed spaces into an entirely new light … Dudley’s wonderfully written study has lifted environmental history, patronized by historians as an awkward stepchild, to new methodically holistic and interdisciplinary heights, with particularly fruitful results.
*Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift*