V-Force
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-83895-795-7 (ISBN)
As World War II came to an end and America's nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shocked the world, it became clear that the nascent Cold War would be as different a conflagration from WWII as that war was from WWI. Believing that the UK was extremely vulnerable to nuclear attack, it was quickly determined that only 'the threat of large-scale damage from similar weapons' could prevent a Soviet attack. And, thus, V-Force was born.
Entered into service between 1955 and 1957, the three models of V class bombers that made up Britain's strategic nuclear strike force - the Vickers Valiant, Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor - were modern marvels of machinery. Capable of both high- and low-level attack with their slick delta wing designs, and supremely quick despite the massive bomb loads they carried, these aircraft were central tenets of Britain's nuclear weapons development.
Despite a fall as precipitous as their rise when the Royal Navy took over Britain's nuclear deterrent role in 1968, like a phoenix from the ashes, the V bombers enjoyed a second life as conventional bombers: the Valiant gaining fame in the Suez Crisis; the Victors in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, and the Vulcans undertook the longest bombing raid in history for Operation Black Buck in the Falklands Campaign of 1982.
V-Force is both an ode to these most resilient and beautiful of British aircraft, and a lens through which to view Britain's Cold War experience.
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 and The Story of Architecture.
Map: V-bomber Dispersal Bases and Airfields Prologue: In balance with this life, this death Chapter 1: Weapons of Mass Destruction I: The bomber will always get through Chapter 2: Weapons of Mass Destruction II: All changed, changed utterly Chapter 3: Weapons of Mass Destruction III: Inception Chapter 4: QRA and Other Early Service Chapter 5: Missiles Chapter 6: Impact Chapter 7: Swords Into Ploughshares Chapter 8: Rivals - USSR/USA/France Chapter 9: What Might Have Been Chapter 10: Post-Polaris Chapter 11: Vulcan to the Sky Afterword: Afterword
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83895-795-2 / 1838957952 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83895-795-7 / 9781838957957 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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