{"product_id":"foulness-david-henningham-9781916932029","title":"Foulness","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is 1957 \/ A Russian jet flies over Foulness Island. The photograph it takes starts a chain reaction, alarming London's military officials and unsettling the Essex farming community that endures within the island's barbed-wire enclosure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames arrives with orders to camouflage the secret base. Yet, despite Miss Bradshaw's efforts to help him restore order quickly and efficiently, secrets revealed by an abandoned printing press divert them both from the A-bomb threat to the cannons of the British Empire. Then a sudden death returns their attention to life, and the scrutiny of the outside world to Foulness Island. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeapons were tested here. Made better-made worse. Rockets refined over Thames sandbanks were turned on an Abyssinian mountain fortress. The British A-bomb transported to Aboriginal lands already devastated by colonial violence. Foulness traces the trajectory from the Victorian Empire to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Henningham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1916932029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916932029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Small Fortune Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"David Henningham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997879808255,"sku":"9781916932029","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foulness-david-henningham-9781916932029","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}