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" Red alert / "
Peter Bryant.
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BL
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1007656
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b762026
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| Main Entry
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Bryant, Peter,1924-1966.
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Red alert /\ Peter Bryant.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: RosettaBooks,, 2011.
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1 online resource (163 pages)
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0795311583
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9780795301223
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9781596545816
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| Notes
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"The basis for Dr. Strangelove."--Cover.
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| Contents
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; eForeword; Foreword; Chapter 1 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 2 Sonora, Texas; Chapter 3 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 4 Sac Hq Omaha, Nebraska; Chapter 5 Sonora, Texas; Chapter 6 The Pentagon, Washington D.C.; Chapter 7 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 8 Sonora, Texas; Chapter 9 The Pentagon; Chapter 10 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 11 Sonora, Texas; Chapter 12 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 13 The Pentagon; Chapter 14 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 15 Sonora, Texas; Chapter 16 The Pentagon; Chapter 17 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 18 Sonora, Texas; Chapter 19 "Alabama Angel"
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Chapter 20 The PentagonChapter 21 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 22 The Pentagon; Chapter 23 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 24 The Pentagon; Chapter 25 "Alabama Angel"; Chapter 26 The Pentagon
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| Abstract
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Peter Bryant's 1958 novel Red Alert tells the terrifying tale of just how close to nuclear destruction the world can be. Here, we are faced with the worst possible of all worst-case scenarios in the Cold War; an American general loses his reason and orders a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by setting in motion this catastrophic attack with Strategic Air Command bombers armed with nuclear weapons. Once they get wind of it, the President of the United States and his advisors work frantically in all efforts to stop the attack. They order the American bombers shot down, and they succeed - all but with one frightening exception - a lone bomber called the "Alabama Angel" escapes destruction. The crew of the Angel ignore the President's orders and continue on with their deadly mission. This book was originally published in the U.K. under the title Two Hours to Doom (written by Peter Bryant, the penname of writer Peter George). This intricately plotted and well-thought out novel conjures the vision of apocalyptic threat of nuclear war and illustrates just how absurdly easy such an attack can be triggered. virtual genre of such fiction sprang up in the late 1950s, led by Nevil Shute's On the Beach, of which Red Alert was among the earliest and finest examples. Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler's later bestseller, Fail Safe, so closely resembled Red Alert in premise and tone that George sued on plagiarism charges and actually won an out-of-court settlement. Both novels would inspire very different films that were both released in 1964.
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Nuclear warfare, Fiction.
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FICTION-- Political.
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Nuclear warfare.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.914
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PR6057.E54R4 2011eb
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