Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
Give Me Shelter
The Failure of Canada's Cold War Civil Defence
Del i serien Studies in Canadian Military History
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Beskrivning
How could you and your family survive a nuclear war? From 1945 to 1963, the Canadian government developed civil defence plans to save lives in bombed cities, evacuate target areas, and encouraged the public to build basement fallout shelters. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was still vastly unprepared for nuclear war. Give Me Shelter features recently released documents detailing Canada's nuclear survival plans. Andrew Burtch reveals how, through public appeals, the department urged citizens to assume responsibility for disaster preparation, a tactic that ultimately failed. An exposé of the challenges of educating the public on the threat of nuclear annihilation, this book illuminates Canada's Cold War home front like never before.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2012-02-21
- Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
- Vikt: 560 g
- Format: Inbunden
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Studies in Canadian Military History
- Antal sidor: 300
- Förlag: University of British Columbia Press
- ISBN: 9780774822404
- Utmärkelser: Commended for The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books 2012 (Canada)
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Andrew Burtch is the historian for the post-1945 period at the Canadian War Museum.
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Luckily, the Soviets never did bomb us or we would not be around to read Give Me Shelter, an extremely detailed and shocking analysis of how a government and its people failed to connect and collaborate on one of the most important issues facing the world during the Cold War … the book is scarier than science fiction because it shows how unprepared we were to save our own skin had the Russians ever decided to attack. - Paul Gessell (The Ottawa Citizen)
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