Building the Gort Line

“It is very well written and makes compelling reading. Most highly recommended.” * The Military Historical Society Bulletin *‘’The author has most certainly closed a gap in the literature. However, the reader should not be discouraged from engaging with this carefully researched work in the misapprehension that it is simply a catalogue of concrete as the first half of the book’s title might suggest. … [The author] had made one of the most considered contributions to the study of the Battle of France since Gregory Blaxland’s Destination Dunkirk in the 1970s.’’ * Muster (SOFNAM) *

After graduating from Reading University, Dave worked for a short period as a Chartered Accountant before opting for a change of career into conservation. He currently works as a warden for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on the north Suffolk Coast. As well as birds and wildlife, his other interests are the Great War and the Second World War, and in particular defence works in both wars – field works and concrete. He is a member of the Western Front Association and the Pillbox Study Group.