Cold War (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
282
Utgivningsdatum
2004-12-01
Upplaga
New e.
Förlag
Historic England
Medarbetare
Thomas, Roger J.C.
Illustratör/Fotograf
color 200 Illustrations 75 Illustrations black and white
Illustrationer
75 Illustrations, color; 200 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
275 x 220 x 27 mm
Vikt
1200 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781873592816

Cold War

Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989

av Wayne Cocroft, Roger C Thomas, P S Barnwell
Häftad,  Engelska, 2004-12-01
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The historical and cultural aspects of the Cold War have been much studied, yet its physical manifestations in England its buildings and structures have remained largely unknown. To the great landscape historian WG Hoskins writing in the 1950s they were profoundly alien: England of the electric fence, of the high barbed wire around some unmentionable devilment. Barbaric England of the scientists, the military men, and the politicians. Now these survivors of the Cold War are, in their turn, disappearing fast, like medieval monasteries and bastioned forts before them only with more limited scope for regeneration and reuse. This book is the first to look at these monuments to the Cold War. It is heavily illustrated with photographs of the sites as they survive today, archive photographs (many previously unpublished), modern and historic air photographs, site and building plans, and specially commissioned interpretative drawings. It also endeavours look at the installations within the military and political context of what was one of the defining phenomena of the late 20th century.
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'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

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Author and archaeologist at Historic England, Cambridge.

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1. Introduction 2. The Cold War: military and political background 3. MAD - 'Mutually Assured Destruction' 4. The United States 'umbrella' 5. Early warning and detections 6. Warning of ballistic missile attack 7. The response - air defence 8. Observation and monitoring 9. The home front 10. The 'white heat' of defence technology 11. The legacy of the Cold War - an international perspective

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