Red Alert

Before you start to read this book it might be a good idea (especially if you are under thirty years old) to do a little reading about 1958 in an almanac or encyclopedia supplement for that year. For those of us who as elementary school students, were taught to turn our desks to the window and cower behind it, or hide in the halls; this could have been a true story. There were more than one or two scares in those days that... Read Full Review

Like others, the printing errors annoyed me, but the story is so compelling that I soon overlooked them. As tense as "Fail Safe" if not more, and nothing like "Strangelove" other than the surface details. Completely gripping, the story moves forward like a juggernaut to it's chilling yet believable ending. One of my favorite cold war novels. For those of us who remember "duck and cover" exercises in elementary school,... Read Full Review

This original story of a US Airforce base commander issuing a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia was adapted by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern for their film version released as "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". In spite of its campy title Kubick and Southern added dark comedy to Peter George's cold war thriller. It has been reported that George was not particularly fond of this... Read Full Review

Red Alert (originally published as Two Hours to Doom in Gt Britain) is an excellent book: gripping, tense, written in good, economical, and forceful language, and (to this very civilian layman, at least) marvellously realistic. I can see why Stanley Kubrick bought the film rights to this little novel: its storyline alone is well worth the price of admission, and with Kubrick and Terry Southern's collective imagination working... Read Full Review

This book places the reader at the center of the Cold War as it becomes hot. Taut prose, suspense and written by someone with a military assessment background. this book makes "Failsafe" look like a exercise of Fifth graders. BUY IT!