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Disasters Underground

By: N. J. McCamley

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The rapid expansion of the RAF during the mid/late 1930s necessitated a massive storage requirement for high explosive bombs and other ordinance. Drawing on the experience of the Great War ammunition factories, the authorities set about identifying underground sites around Britain safe from the threat of air attack. Unfortunately in the haste of the moment safety arrangements were not a high priority and, as a result, there were a number of appalling accidents; the most serious occurred in November 1944 when 3,800 tons of HE bombs detonated at the same time resulting in the deaths of 68 people in a Staffordshire quarry.

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Secret History of Chemical Warfare

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Secret History of Chemical Warfare

By: N. J. McCamley

This book offers a full examination and description of all the toxic chemical and microbiological agents, either tested, manufactured or used since 1914. It identifies the major research, testing and manufacturing plants worldwide with special emphasis on the UK and North America. Among the British sites are Porton Down (Wiltshire), Sutton Oak (Lancashire), Nancekuke (North Cornwall) and the ICI-operated plants at Rhydymwn (North Wales) and St Helens and elsewhere in Lancashire.It details all verifiable uses of CBW since 1914 and examines the rationale behind such operations. Also studied is the arms race for CBW between competing powers. The author uncovers the scientific arrogance and political ignorance that has led to a greatly exaggerated perception of the potency of CBW, which he maintains is still the case today.Finally McCamley reveals the scandalous history of inadequate and dangerous storage and disposal practices.

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Saving Britain's Art Treasures

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Saving Britain's Art Treasures

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This book explains for the first time the full story of the wartime adventures of Britain's greatest art treasures. At first the pictures and other artifacts were distributed amongst a number of large country houses. Initially the owners of these houses almost fought one another for the right to house the Treasures. Later, when further accommodation was needed for treasures from the provincial museums, the tables turned and the Office of Works was reduced to bribing owners by promising that they would be spared billetees, and that their houses would be immune from requisitioning. By mid 1940 however, circumstances transpired that made the country houses untenable. German air bases in northern France made the whole of Britain vulnerable. Eventually two deep underground repositories were constructed, one in Wales and one in Wiltshire, and by the end of 1942 virtually all the cultural heritage of the nation was concentrated there. Building and operation of these underground treasure houses did not, however, go smoothly, as described here.

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Disasters Underground

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Secret Biological Warfare

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Secret Biological Warfare

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Examining the murky history of biological warfare, the whole basis of which is one of the most prominent intelligence failures in the history of modern warfare, this book describes in narrative fashion the worldwide development of biological weapons from the start of the First World War.

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Secret History of Chemical Warfare

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Disasters Underground

Disasters Underground

Secret History of Chemical Warfare

Secret History of Chemical Warfare

Saving Britain's Art Treasures

Saving Britain's Art Treasures

Disasters Underground

Disasters Underground

Secret Biological Warfare

Secret Biological Warfare

Secret History of Chemical Warfare

Secret History of Chemical Warfare

Saving Britain's Art Treasures

Saving Britain's Art Treasures

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