Decent Cold War book
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Decent Cold War book
Thought some of you old sweats might like this book :
Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-89: Amazon.co.uk: Wayne D. Cocroft, Roger J.C. Thomas: Books
Excellent book to sit by the fire with, warm glass of red, and wander down memory lane.
Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-89: Amazon.co.uk: Wayne D. Cocroft, Roger J.C. Thomas: Books
Excellent book to sit by the fire with, warm glass of red, and wander down memory lane.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Here is another that IMHO is vastly underated:
Operation World War III: Secret American Plan "Dropshot" for War with the Soviet Union in 1957: Amazon.co.uk: Anthony Cave Brown: Books
Given that these were the US war palns in 1947 (IIRC) for war in 1957 they make spooky reading.
What is even more remarkable is the planning assumptions for the UK and RAF Deployments. They refer to Bomber Groups rather than Squadrons but they cover Malta, Cyprus and Singapore and the numbers of units that we actually subsequently deployed or subsequently planned to deploy having put the infrastructure in place is just about spot on.
It even had the NATO/Cento split in Malta and the Cento assignment in Cyprus.
It is even errier as it pre-dates the defence agreements that we eventually had with them.
Operation World War III: Secret American Plan "Dropshot" for War with the Soviet Union in 1957: Amazon.co.uk: Anthony Cave Brown: Books
Given that these were the US war palns in 1947 (IIRC) for war in 1957 they make spooky reading.
What is even more remarkable is the planning assumptions for the UK and RAF Deployments. They refer to Bomber Groups rather than Squadrons but they cover Malta, Cyprus and Singapore and the numbers of units that we actually subsequently deployed or subsequently planned to deploy having put the infrastructure in place is just about spot on.
It even had the NATO/Cento split in Malta and the Cento assignment in Cyprus.
It is even errier as it pre-dates the defence agreements that we eventually had with them.
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General Hacketts "Third World War" and Tom Clancy "Red Storm Rising" make great reads.
I had just returned from a BALO job with 1 Br Corps when I read the first book.
The descriptions of some of the clashes, in both books, were on "my patch" and they had been well researched.
I had just returned from a BALO job with 1 Br Corps when I read the first book.
The descriptions of some of the clashes, in both books, were on "my patch" and they had been well researched.
Building for Nuclear Confrontation is an interesting work covering a period throughout which many of us lived and served. I have only a couple of reservations, or maybe regrets about it. It is an English Heritage publication and thus excludes some significant and unique sites in Scotland and Wales. There are also some curious ommissions, sites I know of that and would have deemed worthy of inclusion but receive little or no mention anywhere, curious.
For those with a taste for the more exotic here is a link to a series of photos of a Derelict Soviet ABM Site.
YS
For those with a taste for the more exotic here is a link to a series of photos of a Derelict Soviet ABM Site.
YS
