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Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below (Hardcover)
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Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below (Hardcover)
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Books on the history of fortifications are plentiful. Medieval
castles, the defensive systems of the seventeenth, eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, the trenches and bunkers of the First World
War, the great citadels of the Second World War - all these have
been described in depth. But the fortifications of the Cold War -
the hidden forts of the nuclear age - have not been catalogued and
studied in the same way. Paul Ozorak's Underground Structures of
the Cold War: The World Below fills the gap.After the devastation
caused by the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the
outbreak of the Cold War, all over the world shelters were
constructed deep underground for civilians, government leaders and
the military. Wartime structureswere taken over and adapted and
thousands of men went to work drilling new tunnels and constructing
bunkers of every possible size. At the height of the Cold War, in
some countries an industry of bunker-makers profited from the
public's fear of annihilation.Paul Ozorak describes when and where
these bunkers were built, and records what has become of them. He
explains how they would have been used if a nuclear war had broken
out, and in the case of weapons bases, he shows how these weapons
wouldhave been deployed. His account covers every sort of facility
- public shelters, missile sites, command and communication
centres, storage depots, hospitals.A surprising amount of
information has appeared in the media about these places since the
end of the Cold War, and Paul Ozorak's book takes full advantage of
it.
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