A century ago, Britain braced for invasion. Twice.

To defend against new weapons and new tactics, almost any idea seemed worth considering. Soldiers and civilians stood ready to protect their homes, their families, and everything they knew.

Invasion never came. The end of World War Two left behind thousands of pillboxes and silent pickets, tank traps and obstacles, airfields and trenches, batteries and gun emplacements, observation posts and turrets, searchlights and EXDO stations. Each year more collapse or are removed, but many still remain, buried in hedgerows or isolated in open fields.

Illustrated with over 600 of the author’s photographs, PILLBOX COUNTRY gathers evidence of what nearly became a beleaguered nation’s final stand.