Main entry:

Cocroft, Wayne.

Title & Author:

Cold war : building for nuclear confrontation 1946-1989 / Wayne D. Cocroft and Roger J.C. Thomas ; edited by P.S. Barnwell.

Publication:

Swindon : English Heritage, 2003.

Description:

xvi, 281 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-274) and index.
The Cold War: military and political background -- MAD: "Mutually Assured Destruction" -- The United States "umbrella" -- Early warning and detection -- Warning of ballistic missile attack -- The response: air defence -- Observation and monitoring -- The home front -- The "white heat" of defence technology -- The legacy of the Cold War: an international perspective.
Summary in English, French, and German.
English with summaries in French and German.

Summary:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

1873592698
9781873592694
9781873592816
1873592817

Subject:

Military architecture Great Britain.
Civil defense Great Britain.
Cold War.
Bunkers (Fortification) Great Britain History 20th century.
Ballistic missile early warning system Great Britain.
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration Great Britain.
Historic sites Conservation and restoration Great Britain.
Architecture militaire Grande-Bretagne.
Protection civile Grande-Bretagne.
Guerre froide.
Bunkers (Fortifications) Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Système de détection lointaine des missiles balistiques Grande-Bretagne.
Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration Grande-Bretagne.
Lieux historiques Conservation et restauration Grande-Bretagne.
Ballistic missile early warning system.
Bunkers (Fortification)
Civil defense.
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration.
Historic sites Conservation and restoration.
Military architecture.
Military architecture England.
Military bases, American England History 20th century.
Military bases, British History 20th century.
Bunkers (Fortification) England History 20th century.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Thomas, Roger J. C.
Barnwell, P. S.
English Heritage.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231178
Call No.: NA968.5.C6 C6 2003
Status: Available