I had no idea that race, politics, and the impact of the Brown vs. The Board of Education (1952) and the Southern Manifesto (1956) in the South was such a prominent theme of Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon (1959).
From my Cold War primary source shelves: J. Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit (1958) replete with high school student scholarship contest! #history#ColdWar#books#America#Communism
#OnThisDay in 1980, six terrorists took over the #IranianEmbassy in #London, taking 26 hostages, just a day after the Metropolitan Police assured the Iranians that there was no threat.
My book, Operation Nimrod, covers the siege and the dramatic assault by the #SAS, dispelling the myths.
The ebook version is currently just £0.99/$0.99/€0.99 It's also available in paperback, hardback, and large print.
"Unstable nuclear-waste dams threaten fertile Central Asia heartland"
"Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed."