A comprehensive study of World War Two on the English East Coast and in the North Sea between Flamborough Head in Yorkshire and North Foreland, Kent, covering the limits of the Royal Navy's Nore Command. It details coastal defences, air raids, invasion preparations, naval bases and lesser ports, mines and minelaying, convoys and minesweeping, naval actions, air-sea rescue and e-boats. Seventeen appendices cover such details as ships sunk in Nore Command, types of mines, Naval bases, senior naval officers, naval vessels, and German aircraft claimed by Harwich defences or lost in the area. Including 200 photographs, and 75 maps and diagrams.