Code: 39497793

Attack Warning Red!

Name: Attack Warning Red!
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 39497793
Price: 27.61 EUR
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Author: Julie McDowall
ISBN: 9781847926210

by Julie McDowall

*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK OF APRIL 2024*The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo'So entertaining' The Times 'Cracking ... more

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, 2023
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*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK OF APRIL 2024*

The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo

'So entertaining' The Times
'Cracking' Sunday Telegraph

The atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever. The awesome power of the blast and its deadly fallout meant home in Britain fell under the nuclear shadow, and the threat of annihilation coloured every aspect of ordinary life for the next forty years.

Families were encouraged to construct makeshift shelters with cardboard and sandbags. Vicars and pub landlords learnt how to sound hand-wound sirens, offering four minutes to scramble to safety. Thousands volunteered to give nuclear first aid, often consisting of breakfast tea, herbal remedies, and advice on how to die without contaminating others. And while the public had to look after themselves, bunkers were readied for the officials and experts who would ensure life continued after the catastrophe.

Today we may read about the Cold War and life in Britain under the shadow of the mushroom cloud with a sense of amusement and relief that the apocalypse did not happen. But it is also a timely and powerful reminder that, so long as nuclear weapons exist, the nuclear threat will always be with us.

'Impossible to believe, just as hard to put down' Dan Snow
'Simultaneously horrifying, weirdly nostalgic and darkly hilarIous' Mark Haddon, author of The Porpoise