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Secretaive Southwick, Domesday to D-Day by Geoffrey O'Connell (Second Hand
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Secretive Southwick traces the story of this Hampshire village across nearly a thousand years, from its first appearance in the Domesday Book to its pivotal role in the preparations for D‑Day. Geoffrey O’Connell brings together parish records, estate papers, maps, photographs, and personal recollections to reveal a community shaped by monastic life, estate stewardship, wartime secrecy, and the rhythms of rural Hampshire.
Readers are taken from medieval settlement patterns and manorial life through to the dramatic transformation of Southwick House into the nerve‑centre of Operation Overlord. The book captures both the everyday texture of village life and the extraordinary events that placed Southwick at the heart of world history in 1944.
ISBN : 0950910449