A books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Please use this thread to discuss your favorite nonfiction about world war ii. This book may be about war, but it is, like most of these books, mostly about people. Nuclear wars are quite annihilating than any other wars. An ancient war that involved nuclear weapons during part of the pyramid wars. The book contains chilling details about narrowlyavoided disasters, flawed launch protocols, and philosophies and. He always knew that nuclear war was coming and built an advanced underground shelter in the colorado rockies. According to classical apprehensions, this could escalate to an exchange between russia and the usa, due to vital oil interests in the persian gulf, and russian alliance with syria and. On thermonuclear war is a book by herman kahn, a military strategist at the rand corporation, although it was written only a year before he left rand to form the hudson institute. Lifesaving nuclear facts and selfhelp instructions. The survivors of the blast suffer through radiation, nuclear winter, feuds between rival groups and radiationinduced mutations, eventually evolving into a new species, homo superior. During may, countries around the world celebrate veterans days, memorial days, and ve days to commemorate the end world war ii in europe.
In 1983, scheer wrote the book with enough shovels. The widespread use of agent orange all over southeast asia is a dark secret, even today. Also, potassium iodide iodine antiradiation pills faq with otc sources. In the book the soviet union responds to the us deploying a star warslike missile defense system with a limited nuclear strike. Its going to feel weird reading a book about a german general in wwii but for rommel we must make an exception. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the publisher. An interactive fiction game examining the futile nature of nuclear war. Vintage books, ridiculing the policies based on the kearny book without once mentioning or discussing kearnys book or his prior oak ridge national laboratory research reports. The nuclear war fun book by langer, victor and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Book awards book club selections books by author books by series coming soon kids books new releases teens books this months biggest new releases. Apocalyptic effects are immeasurable in a nuclear holocaust. United states military analyst offers his recollections and analysis of a cache of secret documents related to the us nuclear arsenal.
Atomic attack 1954 abctv series season 1, episode 15 a family. Ancient, wwi, wwii, korea, vietnam,desert storm etc. Extraparliamentary dissent in france and germany 1981. They are nonfiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons andor nuclear power american prometheus. In it, kahn addresses the strategic doctrines of nuclear war and its effect on the international balance of power. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising.
This is one of the best books available on general nuclear issues, if you dont mind that the cold war is over and its a quarter century out of date. The myriad of potential effects will be global and widespread, and the potentials are glazed over in this short work. United states arms control and disarmament agency this is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Beevors stalingrad is the better of his two books on the war. When he does get to scalzannis town then the book finally picks up. Top 10 books on nuclear war best book recommendations. To vote on books not in the list or books you couldnt find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
How to survive a nuclear war by miles baldwin nook book. On the grounds of concise description, we will deal in brief of the top 10 books on nuclear war. The author at this time was dying of aids so the writing for this series was in decline. Books about nuclear war are, to many people, the founding cornerstones of post apocalyptic fiction. In juxtaposing pithy narrative and endofchapter references to primary sources, this book offers a glimpse up the authors sleeve, at the process of history writing as well as of history makin. The mystery of ancient nuclear war mysterious universe. After all, it was the dawning of the nuclear age that brought the possibility of imminent catastrophe to the forefront of the public consciousness, a time when total atomic annihilation seemed never more. Macintyre has also written and presented bbc documentaries of his work. The doomsday machine confessions of a nuclear war planner by daniel ellsberg 420 pp. An almost finished colonyship aimed at a neigbouring planet. Top 10 books about the cold war the long, nucleararmed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace which inspired some brilliant literature francesca kay. The dangers of nuclear war by michel chossudovsky ebook series. While an ok book it took to page 100 out of a 185 page book to finally get to the main story.
Ben macintyre is a writeratlarge for the times of london and the bestselling author of a spy among friends, double cross, operation mincemeat, agent zigzag, and rogue heroes, among other books. It reads more like alternate history now, but it was a brutal hard science fiction take on what nuclear war would do to 1980s america. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. The authors main premise is that many thousands of years ago an ancient war took place in our planet with advanced weapons. Three best nonfiction books ever the washington post. The actual story takes place about ten years after warday with a journalist. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. A limited exchange nuclear war second nuclear war ww2 was the first between israel and other middle eastern nations seems likely within the next few years. The book details three generations of a family during the aftermath of a nuclear war. As a highaltitude electromagnetic pulse would be the most efficacious use of a single nuclear weapon in the hands of a subnational organization or rogue state, this is a scenario which is more likely to occur than an exchange of airburst nuclear warheads which is. In this article, we shall discuss some bestselling books on nuclear war. Ground zero covers proliferation, star wars, weapons systems, general history and of course, the effects of a nuclear war.
Five years in the bunker the father teaches his reluctant son martin all his ranger skills. A life of field marshall erwin rommel by david fraser. Popular nuclear war books meet your next favorite book. The stark realities of the forgotten and ignored vietnam war veterans are expertly exposed by dr. The antinuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Popular nonfiction war books meet your next favorite book.
But this life is turned upside down when the horrors of nuclear war ravage their planet and confront them with a bleak and hopeless future of living in a radioactive wasteland with only one hope. Discover book depositorys huge selection of world war 1 nonfiction books online. Thoras and his friends live a perfectly normal life for a young bartu teenager. Once again culling from the excellent comments left in my original post on the topic from a while back, here are the books many readers suggested anthony beevors books stalingrad and the fall of berlin 1945. This weeks war special affords us the chance to check which war nonfiction is selling. Alas, babylon by pat frank, on the beach by nevil shute, the compound by s. Myths and facts an allout nuclear war between russia and the united states would be the worst catastrophe in history, for example, air bursting a 20kiloton weapon at the optimum height to destroy. In honor, this months nonfiction genre is books about world war ii. Global research publishers is a division of the centre for research on globalization crg. That day arrives in 1990 and the family makes it in time before the bombs start falling. This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, or crash of civilization due to a nuclear electromagnetic pulse. Revisiting the paranoia of the cold war era, this list will envelope books involving an end times scenario via our nuclear appetite. Within these pages are claimed to be references to some catastrophic event that in many ways sounds. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures.
One of the main historical oddities that has been used to illustrate the possibility of an ancient nuclear war is supposedly contained within the 8th century sanskrit epic the mahabharata, which chronicles the kurukshetra war and battle between rama and the ancient king known as the demon ravana. After yesterdays world war ii fiction post, now its time for the nonfiction. Top 10 books about the cold war books the guardian. Perry, more technocrat than politician, emphasizes his efforts to prevent nuclear war in this sincere and nontriumphalist memoir. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. United states navy submarines 19002019 images of war michael green.
To buttress this premise the author highlights various locales that were targets within the ancient war such as sodom, gomorrah. Here is a list of 10 books fiction that are about postnuclear and other mass destruction war scenarios. Published in 1895, it relates the story of an english scientist who travels forwar. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change. Apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy, dystopian or horror in which the earths technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. It is a controversial treatise on the nature and theory of war in the thermonuclear weapon age.