SNN103133 - Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989

In the early 1950's, the historian Professor William Hoskins, in his pioneering work The making of the English Landscape, he lamented what he saw as the devastation of the countryside by scientists, the military and politicians. He saw his world as dominated by 'the obscene shape of the atom-bomber, laying a trail like a filthy slugupon Constable's land and Gainsborough's sky. England of the Nissen Hut, the 'pre-fab', and the electric fence, of the high barbed wire around some unmentionable devilment.' A geneeration later, this book reveals what lay behind the fence and how these sites are now, in dereliction, a new aspect f the complex landscape history of Britain.