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Cold War - Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Cold War - Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The historical and cultural aspects of the Cold War have been much
studied, yet its physical manifestations in England - its buildings
and structures - have remained largely unknown. To the great
landscape historian WG Hoskins writing in the 1950's they were
profoundly alien: "England of the ... electric fence, of the high
barbed wire around some unmentionable devilment.... Barbaric
England of the scientists, the military men, and the politicians".
Now these survivors of the Cold War are, in their turn,
disappearing fast, like medieval monasteries and bastioned forts
before them - only with more limited scope for regeneration and
reuse. This book is the first to look at these monuments to the
Cold War. It is heavily illustrated with photographs of the sites
as they survive today, archive photographs (many previously
unpublished), modern and historic air photographs, site and
building plans, and specially commissioned interpretative drawings.
It also endeavours look at the installations within the military
and political context of what was one of the defining phenomena of
the late 20th century.
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