Overview

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 It is heavily illustrated with photographs of the sites as they survive today, archive photographs (many previously unpublished), modern and historic air photographs, site and building plans, and specially commissioned interpretative drawings.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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Praise for the hardback edition : Quite sensational - a gem. It is one of the great books of 2003A - Eye Spy magazine It is excellent, informative and a worthy initiator of the debate it seeks to promoteA - Lobster Magazine This is excellent archaeologyA - Antiquity One could not imagine a better work on the subjectA - Casemate this is a fascinating book Aviation News Cold War revisits the world of John Steed and Emma PeelA - The Times

'a model example of comprehensive research in modern, contemporary industrial heritage' This is excellent archaeology One could not imagine a better work on the subject

This is excellent archaeology -- David Griffiths One could not imagine a better work on the subject

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Wayne Cocroft has recently retired as a Senior Archaeological Investigator with Historic England, where he specialised in the investigation and assessment of industrial and defence sites.

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