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Title: Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers: The Passive Defence of the Western World During the Cold War C by Nick J. McCamley ISBN: 0-85052-746-5 Publisher: Pen & Sword Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Good Attempt
Comment: Nick McCamley has done a good job at covering the the extensive network of passive defense sites in the UK. This is a difficult subject that the author has obviously spent quite a long time researching and documenting. McCamley should have stopped with the UK.
McCamley's treatment of North America lacks the thoroughness that his chapters on the UK show. The first part of the book attempts to cover the bunkers in the US and Canada. While he covers the Texas Towers in the middle of the ocean, he fails to even mention the RCAF bunker at North Bay in his chapter on Canada.
Additionally, the author's explanation of the causes of the Cold War and the effects are sophomoric at best. He attempts to summarize the complex political, economic, military, historical, and philosophical forces up in trite blame America explanations. He should have kept to his area of expertise.
The book shows a sloppy preparation by the publisher. For example, on the rear dust cover, it has a picture of a Titan II ICBM labeled as a "Peacemaker." The Peacemaker was the Convair B-36 bomber. Either the publisher was ignorant or they were mistaken and confused a "Peacekeeper" ICBM with a Titan II. There is no excuse for this kind of error, especially on the dust jacket. It can only lead you question the fact checking that the publisher did through the rest of the volume. The editing has typos, such as B-39 instead of B-29, and the book is choppy. Chapters seem to have been written independently and for different places than they were eventually put in the book.
I recommend this work as a starting point for those who want to know about the bunker system in the UK. If you can see past the short comings mentioned above, this is a good attempt at a difficult subject.
Rating: 4
Summary: a good book
Comment: this is a very good book and read , i recommend it as it is chock full of information , but it mostly only covers the buildings of cold war england , which it didnt mention in the editorial review , though there is a bit about norrad and sage and some early american cold war projects in the biginning.i did expect some more indepth pictures of some of the sites which is why i only gave it a 4 (with more pictures i would have given it a 5) overall it is a recommended read and an excelent addition to a post ww2 library.
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Title: Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality after the Cold War by Paul Shambroom, Richard Rhodes ISBN: 0801872022 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America by Tom Vanderbilt ISBN: 1568983050 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: 100 Suns by Michael Light ISBN: 1400041139 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Nuclear Weapons by William Lambers ISBN: 0965652076 Publisher: Bill Lambers Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture by Kenneth D. Rose ISBN: 0814775225 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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