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Warday: And the Journey Onward - Whitley Strieber


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Warday: And the Journey Onward - Whitley Strieber

 
Description: ISBN 0030707315 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Whitley Strieber, James Kunetka / Hardcover / 374 Pages / Book is published 1984-04 by Henry ... more
Warday: And the Journey Onward - Whitley Strieber ... Holt & Co

Newest Review: ... in 1993, several years after the nuclear exchange is interesting and rather seeing it as a future novel, it could be seen now ... more

 ... as an 'alternative history' story. This gets around the obvious problem of the book seeming 'dated'. If you've seen and enjoyed the nightmarish 'Threads' and 'The Day After', you will certainly enjoy Warday. Its depiction of life post-nuclear war is realistic and troubling. Its still relevant today and has lost none of its impact. If you can imagine replacing Russia with Iran, then the effects would be quite similar. The clever way that the writers have made the book a part novel, part documentary makes the book...more

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Warday: And the Journey Onward
Pages: 374, Edition: 1st edition, Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Last Update 11.12.2009 06:11
£ 34.60


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Pages: 515, Edition: Reissue, Paperback
Last Update 11.12.2009 06:11
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Premium Review Warday: And the Journey Onward - Whitley Strieber: Nuclear War and the After Effects (476 words)
by - written on 20/01/09 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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Warday tells the story of an America, post nuclear war, through the eyes of two writers taking a trip across the shattered nation. Warday began in October 1987 and was a brief nuclear exchange between the USA and Russia, but its after effects were the most catastrophic - disease, radiation and starvation. OK, now the book is very dated, but it's an interesting testament to the time and the age it was written in. The Russians and the Americans were in the middle of the 'Star Wars' program at the time - the ability to destroy incoming ICBM's before they reached the target. The fact that the book is set in 1993, several years after the nuclear exchange is ...  Read the complete review

 

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