Top Secret Worcestershire Volume Two (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781916168091)

Following upon the success of 'Top Secret Worcestershire', and with over 200 photographs, many never before published, here is another dose of the secret and surprising from Worcestershire: -'Top Secret' bunkers, including the hidden BBC communications centre that would service the United Kingdom following a nuclear strike.-A 'walk through' a Worcestershire Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post (nuclear bunker) and its equipment, plus discover the stirring history of the Corps.-A secret rocket factory in the heart of Worcester and how a rocket motor works and is built.-The drawings of a 'serial artist' inspired by his time in the local Air Training Corps-A local Vulcan pilot's story-A Malvern scientist's story-Recollections and wonderful photographs from Defford and Pershore.If you like aviation and military history, the 'Cold War' history of the United Kingdom, local history, social history, science and technology and the recollections of ordinary people doing the extraordinary, this is the book for you. If you liked 'Top Secret Worcestershire', you will love this too. Other books by Stephen Burrows and Michael LaytonJoint: Historical Crime Fiction: Black Over Bill's Mother's - A Storm is Coming Keep Right On The Touch Of InnocenceNon-Fiction: One in For D & D - a little book of police slang It's A Blag - police tricks and funny stories It's a Blag II - more police tricks and funny stories Ta-Ra A Bit, Our Kid - a little book of slang used by 'Brummies' Reporting for Duty - West Midlands Police (The first twenty-five years 1974 - 1999) Top Secret Worcestershire The Noble Cause Walsall's Front Line - Volume 1 (1997-1998) Walsall's Front Line - Volume 2 (1998-1999) By Stephen Burrows Historical Fiction Pretty ThingBy Michael Layton Non-Fiction: Hunting the Hooligans (With Robert Endeacott) Tracking the Hooligans (With Alan Pacey) Police Dog Heroes (With Bill Rogerson) Birmingham's Front Line Violence in the Sun The Night the Owl Cried - A Taste of Cyprus (With Androulla Christou-Layton) The Hooligans Are Still Among Us (With Bill Rogerson)Website: www.bostinbooks.co.ukFacebook page www.facebook.com/BostinBooks

Author: Michael Layton,Stephen Burrows
ISBN-10: 1916168094
ISBN-13: 9781916168091
Publisher: Bostin Books
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2020
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.48d