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Secret Underground Cities

By Nick McCamley

Secret Underground Cities Social Sciences

Secret Underground Cities

By Nick McCamley

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NEW REVISED EDITION OF A 1999 CLASSIC: SECRET UNDERGROUND CITIES’ is the history of the series of vast underground arsenals, factories and control bunkers built by the British government during the Second World War, and of the new uses found for many of these subterranean cities as nuclear shelters and command centres during the period of post-war, cold-war paranoia. After an introduction explaining the inter-war military, economic and political factors that influenced the government’s policy on underground protection, the book goes on describe in detail the construction and operation of all the major sites including: (1) CENTRAL AMMUNITION DEPOT CORSHAM (Tunnel Quarry, Monkton Farleigh Quarry, and the Ridge/Eastlays underground complex) (2) The two-million square foot SPRING QUARRY underground aircraft engine factory at Corsham, and the smaller sites at DRAKELOW, WARREN ROW, WESTWOOD and DUDLEY (3) The secret underground repositories built to house the contents of the National Gallery at MONOD, in the Snowdon mountains, and the quarry at WESTWOOD in Wiltshire that housed the treasures of the V&A and the British Museum. (4) The underground headquarters built in BROWNS QUARRY (later known as RAF RUDLOE MANOR) to house the headquarters of No.10 Group, Fighter Command. This later became the hub of the Western sector of the ‘Rotor’ radar system. (5) Amongst the other WW2 sites covered are the RAF storage depots at FAULD, HARPUR HILL and CHILMARK as well as the Admiralty and MoS depots at COPENACRE, MONKS PARK, HAYES WOOD (Limpley Stoke) etc. The final section of the book describes how Spring Quarry at Corsham became the National Government War Headquarters, (the fabled city of Burlington), from where the government would launch any retaliatory nuclear attack, and which would become the home of the War Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff Committee, together with 4,000 Civil Servants.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
338
Release Date:
2014-04-30
Publication Date:
2014-04-30
Publisher:
Folly Books Ltd
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0992855403
Weight:
650 g
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