The complete history of Kenilworth during the Second World War will be explored in a local historian's latest book.

'World War Two comes to Kenilworth', by Robin Leach, will tell the story of the town from 1938 to the official VE Day celebrations in 1946.

As well as some stories that many residents may already know, like the bombing of the Globe Hotel, the book will also include new information as well as photographs that have never been published before.

Whilst Robin has been writing the book over the past two years, it is actually been much longer in the making.

"It is something that I have always collected information about," he said.

"I have a website about World War Two in Kenilworth, so it really is an extension of that.

"I have collected that much stuff that I thought it would be a good idea to get it into a book so it is there for everybody to see."

Whilst Robin's is not the first book to cover parts of the war in Kenilworth, it will be the first to tell a thorough history from start to finish.

"I have told the entire war chronologically which nobody has done before," he said.

"They tend to tell one person's story, but this is a beginning to end story and how things progressed in Kenilworth."

Printed by Emmerson Press on Farmer Ward Road, the book will be available later this month from Kenilworth Books as well as from Robin directly.

World War Two Comes to Kenilworth is in fact his tenth local history book.

He published his first, 'Kenilworth's Railway Age' back in 1985 but said things have "accelerated a bit since then".

"Kenilworth is a good one for researching because you can tie these little threads together from different things that have happened," he added.

"It has had quite a lot happened to it in the last 150 years."

The latest work has been sourced from first hand accounts, newspaper archives, council minutes and of course other books.

And with Robin having now covered the vast majority of Kenilworth's social history since 1840 he said this was likely to be his last volume.

"It probably will be; I can't think that I am going to get enough information on another subject to write another book.

"Although I said the last one would be as well!"

The header photograph was supplied by Rob Clark, and was taken by his grandfather, council employee Alfred Clark.

Alfred's son (Rob's father), Derek, came to Kenilworth as one of the Dagenham schoolchildren; Alfred later joined him in Kenilworth, and eventually so did the rest of the family.