Richard D. (rik) reviewed on 10/18/2006 + 11 more book reviews

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Originally published in 1959, I first read this book as a Florida High School student in 1962. This was right after the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. I remember flights of military planes flying south and the reports of US Army build-up on the Florida Keys. "Alas Babylon" could have happened at that point in real life. The book covers a time in central Florida when Atomic Bombs were dropped on Major US cities. The characters could see the cloud of the one dropped on Jacksonville and knew of Miami and Atlanta being bombed. This is the story of their life during a short few years after the bombs dropped. It still has a poignant plot that can be assigned to todays turmoil. A really good read.

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