Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989 (None)

Cocroft, Wayne, Thomas, Roger J.C.

ISBN 10: 1873592698 / ISBN 13: 9781873592694

Published by English Heritage, 2003

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Synopsis:

In the early 1950s, the historian Professor William Hoskins, in his pioneering work The making of the English Landscape, lamented what he saw as the devastation of the countryside by scientists, the military and politicians. He saw his world as dominated by 'the obscene shape of the atom-bomber, laying a trail like a filthy slug upon Constable's and Gainsborough's sky. England of the Nissen hut, the 'pre-fab', and the 'electric fence, of the high barbed wire around some unmentionable devilment'. A generation later, this book reveals what lay behind the fence and how these sites are now, in dereliction, a new aspect of the complex landscape history of Britain.

Review: 'a model example of comprehensive research in modern, contemporary industrial heritage' "This is excellent archaeology" "One could not imagine a better work on the subject"

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation...
Publisher: English Heritage
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Book Type: book