Vulcan: RAF'S Atomic Avenger (Aeroplane Icons)

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Название: Vulcan: RAF's Atomic Avenger

Автор: Tim McLelland

Издательство: Kelsey Publishing

Серия: Aeroplane Icons

ISBN: 978 1907426780

Год издания: 2014

Язык: English

Количество страниц: 132

Формат: PDF

Размер: 102,7 MB

It is perhaps surprising that the “Swinging Sixties” are now half a century away. Five decades ago, Britain was a country full of optimism and opportunity, freed from years of austerity created by the long, dark years of the Second World War. It was an era when permissiveness and prosperity seemed to be the nation’s future, but it was also a time when Britain faced the possibility of no future at all. During one fearful weekend early in the 1960s, it seemed likely that the United Kingdom was about to face utter destruction, and preparations were made to initiate what would have been the Third World War, even though most of Britain’s people went about their daily lives almost oblivious to the horror that was unfolding inside the military and political corridors of power. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a critical event when the prospect of nuclear war seemed to be almost inevitable, but history records that even though the unthinkable briefl y became almost a certainty, the prospect of an all-out nuclear exchange between the East and West was a step that neither of the protagonists were ultimately prepared to take.

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