Expendables
Joel Shurkin, 23 January 1986
Clouds of Deceit: The Deadly Legacy of Britain’s Bomb Tests
by Joan Smith.
Faber, 174 pp., £8.95, November 1985,0 571 13628 1 Show More
by Joan Smith.
Faber, 174 pp., £8.95, November 1985,
Fields of Thunder: Testing Britain’s Bomb
by Denys Blakeway and Sue Lloyd-Roberts.
Allen and Unwin, 242 pp., £10.95, November 1985,0 04 341029 4 Show More
by Denys Blakeway and Sue Lloyd-Roberts.
Allen and Unwin, 242 pp., £10.95, November 1985,
“... Joan Smith; Fields of Thunder – a much better book – by Sue Lloyd-Roberts and the BBC’s Denys Blakeway. Both books were inspired by the Australian Royal Commission on the conduct of the tests, whose report was published last month. In recent years Australians have been exploring the cost in blood and pride of their relationship with the mother ... ”
