V-Force (eBook)

Britain's Nuclear Bombers and the Cold War

Jonathan Glancey (Autor)

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2025 | Main
352 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-83895-796-4 (ISBN)

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'Impressive... Glancey has written an engaging and affectionate account of the V-bombers, not least the figures who made it all possible.' Telegraph


THE THREE VERY DIFFERENT models of V class bomber comprising Britain's strategic nuclear strike force - Vickers Valiant, Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor - marked a radical change in post-war bomber design. From the time they first entered service between 1955 and 1957, these charismatic, high-flying jets stole the public imagination. Theirs, though, was a terrible beauty. In 1956, over the South Australian desert, Valiant WZ366 was the first British aircraft to drop an operational atomic bomb.


The V-bombers were Britain's premier Cold War aircraft. But frictions in Anglo-American relations alongside

developments in radar and surface-to-air missiles led to the Royal Navy taking over Britain's nuclear deterrent role in 1968. Despite this, the V-bombers enjoyed a second life in conventional roles, most notably when Vulcans undertook the longest bombing raids in history in the 1982 Falklands War.

V-Force sets these formidable, haunting aircraft in the story of the development of twentieth-century weapons of mass destruction, military rivalries and international politics. It is both an extraordinary ode to the V-bombers and a unique lens through which to view Britain's Cold War experience.

Autor

Jonathan Glancey is well known as the former architecture and design correspondent of the Guardian and Independent newspapers. A frequent broadcaster, his books include Wings Over Water,The Journey Matters, Concorde, Harrier, Giants of Steam, Spitfire, Nagaland,Tornado andThe Story of Architecture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: atom bomb • Avro • Battle of Britain • Blitz • bombardment • Cold War • Damien Lewis • Dimbleby • donald l miller • Dunkirk • Geopolitics • Handley Page • Hiroshima • james holland • john nicol • Jojo Rabbit • Lawrence Freedman • lloyd clark • Masters of the Air • Max Hastings • Mosquito • mosquito men • Nagasaki • nuclear weapons • oppenheimer • RAF • Spitfire • Submarine • the red arrows • valiant • Victor • Vulcan • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-83895-796-0 / 1838957960
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83895-796-4 / 9781838957964