Someone Is Out to Get Us by Brian T Brown

Someone Is Out to Get Us by Brian T Brown

In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United States fought an enemy of its own making for over forty years-and nearly scared itself to death in the process. The nation chose to fear a chimera, a rotting communist empire that couldn't even feed itself, only for it to be revealed that what lay behind the Iron Curtain was only a sad Potemkin village. In fact, one of the greatest threats to our national security may have been our closest ally. The most effective spy cell the Soviets ever had was made up of aristocratic Englishmen schooled at Cambridge. Establishing a communist peril but lacking proof, J. Edgar Hoover became our Big Brother and Joseph McCarthy went hunting for witches. Richard Nixon stepped into the spotlight as an opportunistic, ruthless Cold Warrior; his criminal cover-up during a dark presidency was exposed by a Deep Throat in a parking garage. Someone Is Out to Get Us is the true and complete account of a long-misunderstood period of history during which lies, conspiracies and paranoia led Americans into a state of madness and misunderstanding, too distracted by fictions to realise that the real enemy was looking back at them in the mirror the whole time.

Author Brian Brown was born in Kuala Lumpur, an only child, on 29th October 1918 and lived there until the age of four years when he was shipped home via Vancouver, Canada to arrive in Bridge of Weir in Scotland aged five years. Brian moved to Glasgow with his Governess and was sent to Cargofield Prep School. This was not a happy experience for the six year old, but attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, where his father had been a pupil, at the age of thirteen years. The four years at Fettes proved to be one of the happiest times of his life. Unfortunately his father passed away in 1936 and rather than the academic future envisioned for him, Brian went to work in the family business in Glasgow - William Forbes & Co, Coal Merchants until signing up as a Belisha Boy in 1939, serving in the British Army until discharged in 1945. After the war, Brian bought the family business from his uncle, but his heart was always in farming and the family finally moved to Lochfield Farm, Darvel until Brian retired in 1986.

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ISBN 13	9781538728031
ISBN 10	1538728036
Titel	Someone Is Out to Get Us
Autor	Brian T Brown
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Twelve
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-12-12
Seitenanzahl	512
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.