THE CITY BUILT FOR THE BOMB , Secret Underground Cities, Hidden Tunnels, and the True Stories Beneath the Modern World
Lingua: inglese
Editore: TrueHistories, 2026
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THE CITY BUILT FOR THE BOMB , Secret Underground Cities, Hidden Tunnels, and the True Stories Beneath the Modern World | Matthew Nichols | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | TrueHistories | EAN 9798235225824 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
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- Titolo
- THE CITY BUILT FOR THE BOMB , Secret Underground Cities, Hidden Tunnels, and the True Stories Beneath the Modern World
- Autore
- Matthew Nichols
- Editore
- TrueHistories
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2026
- Condizione
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- Rilegatura
- Taschenbuch
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 13
- 9798235225824
- Peso dell'articolo
- 109 grammi
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- 216 x 140 x 4 mm
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Some cities were built to impress. Others were built to survive.
Beneath the familiar streets of the modern world exists another landscape, one carved through stone, excavated beneath neighborhoods, and concealed behind doors most people pass without noticing.
These underground spaces were not created merely as curiosities.
They were answers to fear.
In The City Built for the Bomb, historian and nonfiction author Matthew Nichols investigates the remarkable true history of underground cities, tunnels, shelters, quarries, wartime complexes, and subterranean communities created when political violence, military technology, climate, economics, and human survival collided.
Travel beneath Cappadocia, where communities expanded extraordinary underground refuges through volcanic rock. Descend into the old quarries beneath Paris, where centuries of excavation created a second geography below the French capital. Enter the subterranean spaces of Naples, the hidden infrastructure beneath Seattle, and the shelters where Londoners sought protection as German bombs fell during the Second World War.
Then the story moves deeper into the twentieth century.
In Vietnam, the Củ Chi tunnels became part of a brutal subterranean battlefield. In Australia, residents of Coober Pedy discovered that life underground could offer protection from punishing desert heat. In Helsinki, civil-defense planning helped create an extraordinary underground infrastructure designed to serve a peaceful city while remaining useful in an emergency.
And beneath Beijing lies one of the Cold War's most remarkable physical legacies.
As relations between China and the Soviet Union deteriorated and nuclear war became a genuine strategic fear, Mao-era China mobilized enormous numbers of people to construct civil-defense tunnels beneath the capital. What began as preparation for catastrophe would eventually acquire another life, with portions of Beijing's underground world used for housing before authorities moved to close unsafe subterranean residences.
The bombs never came.
The city remained.
Nichols separates documented history from the legends that inevitably accumulate around places hidden from public view. The result is not a catalogue of mysterious tunnels, but an investigation into why societies repeatedly choose to build downward when survival above ground can no longer be taken for granted.
Behind every tunnel is a pressure that forced someone to dig.
War. Heat. Poverty. Politics. Industry. Fear.
The City Built for the Bomb reveals the hidden systems beneath some of the world's most famous cities and the people whose lives became entangled with them.
For readers fascinated by hidden history, Cold War history, underground cities, military history, forgotten infrastructure, archaeology, urban history, and the strange true stories concealed beneath everyday places, this is history from an entirely different level.
The surface tells us what a civilization wanted the world to see.
Underground, we discover what it was afraid of.
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Matthew Nichols is the founder of TrueHistories.com and the author of investigative nonfiction that explores the hidden systems, forgotten records, and overlooked events that shaped history. Drawing on archival research, court records, government documents, and contemporary sources, he focuses on separating documented fact from popular myth. His work examines the people, institutions, and decisions that operated behind the public stories history often remembers.
He is the author of numerous works of historical nonfiction, including Ashes of Silence, Blood-Stained Slippers, Hidden Figures, Erased Codes, The Deal That Broke America, and The Roll Up.
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