Cold War by Wayne D Cocroft

Cold War by Wayne D Cocroft

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This book reveals the architecture of the Cold War - the bunkers, airfields and secret underground communication centres which scatterd the English landscape. Many of these are now derelict, and are fascinating monuments to the Cold War era.

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Cold War by Wayne D Cocroft

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.
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ISBN 13 9781873592694
ISBN 10 1873592698
Titel Cold War
Autor Wayne D Cocroft
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Historic England
Erscheinungsjahr 2003-07-04
Seitenanzahl 288
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