Avro Vulcan Manual: 1952 Onwards (B2 Model)
Tony Blackman and Alfred Price
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The awesome Avro Vulcan is an enduring image of the Cold War era when the world stood on the brink...
graveyardgremlin (7194 KP) rated The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady in Books
Feb 15, 2019
Though not as humorous as led to believe by the various quotes on the cover, the most amusing of it happened in the first chapter and nearer the end, the rest of the book is filled with many dramas that had unusual, and not quite so grim, outlooks to them. The book flows nicely and the descriptions were easy to visualize, so I could clearly picture the settings. The characters each have their individual voices that make it easy to separate each of them from the others; I found everyone to be interesting in how they acted, reacted and dealt with the situations that popped up in the story. I both sympathized and hoped they could better themselves by the end. The author tackles some tough subjects (pedophilia, murder, adultery, creating a model nuclear reactor) in a light, yet respectful manner, and who also incorporates some Cold War history into the story too. I had no idea that around 800 unsuspecting pregnant women were given radioactive 'cocktails' (iron) to see how it would effect their fetus. Further information can be found in [b:The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War|212087|The Plutonium Files America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War|Eileen Welsome|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172741136s/212087.jpg|205297], which I am now interested in finding out more about this and other unethical testing, thanks to the author. Overall, the book is a quick and easy read, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to read it.
The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail
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"Bill Bryson on two wheels". (Independent). Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore...
The Night Manager
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In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British...
The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
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How is it that the United States-a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong...
Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II
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Garbo was the British codename of Joan Puyol Garcia, perhaps the most influential spy of the Second...
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
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FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE...At eighteen, Forsyth was the...
Trieste: And the Meaning of Nowhere
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Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) in Movies
Oct 3, 2019
The Plot: When a UFO lands in Washington, D.C., bearing a message for Earth's leaders, all of humanity stands still. Klaatu (Michael Rennie) has come on behalf of alien life who have been watching Cold War-era nuclear proliferation on Earth. But it is Klaatu's soft-spoken robot Gort that presents a more immediate threat to onlookers. A single mother (Patricia Neal) and her son teach the world about peace and tolerance in this moral fable, ousting the tanks and soldiers that greet the alien's arrival.
This film and the other that i mention are must watch.
Notes From a Small Military
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Stumbling from a university anarchist meeting into a career in the army, Chip Chapman is aware of...