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What a great read. I have always enjoyed dr. Strangelove and after seeing the movie many times and reading several books about the fascinating history of the movie I came to a realization that I never read the novel upon which the movie is based.
So I did. The book Red Alert has many detractors and fans. Count me among the fans. I thought it was fantastic and a great analysis of cold war strategy and Mad. It was very tense and exciting. In the end I couldn't put it down as the Doomsday Clock ran down. I grew up doing h bomb drills and expecting to be turned radioactive dust and
found this book to be informative and worth the price.


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Red Alert Peter Bryant Books Reviews

Gripping 1960s story - this is not Dr. Strangelove - it's the story on which Dr. Strangelove was based. There's no comic relief in Red Alert. Just a frightening scenario played out in tense detail as a B-52 Wing (8 planes) is sent to the Soviet Union to effect a preemptive thermonuclear strike at all 33 Priority One targets annihilating an estimated 30 million people on the command of a determined, terminally ill American general with the knowledge and codes necessary to bypass the White House. This book is in the genre of On the Beach and Failsafe. At 166 pages, it's a well written, quick read that will linger in your memory long after it's finished. I highly recommend it but, understand, your sleep will be disturbed - you've been warned!
The story was more compelling in the movie Dr. Strangelove, as it maintained a serious tone throughout.

If you like the book, but didn’t like Dr. Strangelove, I recommend Fail Safe.

As for the odd typos, a ? Appeared multiple times in place of other single characters, most confusing when used as a character i key plot point. I can’t tell if this is a fault in the digital edition or a hold over from the print edition.
I love the movie Dr Strangelove with its dark humor. The book has the darkness but little of the humor. Instead of the insane General Jack Dd Ripper of the movie, we have the coldly rational, if somewhat demented, General Quentin, launching his bombers for almost humanitarian purposes to avoid an apocalyptic war in the future. The book gives a chilling view of Cold War thinking.

What makes this book so scary is that the characters make excellent arguments for nuking the Soviet Union as a prophylactic measure. It will save so many lives in the future.The president, who is much stronger than in the movie, is opposed, but then coldly negotiates away millions of American lives with his Soviet counterpart.

While the movie satirizes the people whose fingers are on the trigger, the novel presents them as truly scary accountants balancing the books on a global scale.
Red Alert is a cautionary tale. Written in the 50's during the Cold War, Peter Bryant highlighted the fallibility that exists between hugely destructive forces and the humans that control them. A Sentiment that was also echoed by Robert S. McNamara in his documentary The Fog of War Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.

The book flits between 3 main locations, The Pentagon, an air-force base and a B52 and each chapter resets the location to either one of those. The writing is crisp, succinct and on point at all times. A SAC-base commander has gone mad and ordered a nuclear strike on Russia. The Commander has exploited a hole in all the "Failsafe" systems in place to stop such an act. Now - do we try to stop it or, realizing we can't, order total commitment? Maybe, as the USA was geared to retaliation, not attack, we seize the opportunity to annihilate the enemy ?

As other reviewers have mentioned, this book forms the basis for Kubrick's 1963 masterpiece Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick read the book on a trans-Atlantic flight and wanted to adapt it to the screen. At first it wasn't to be a comedy but, as Kubrick got more into the meat, he saw the dark comedy side. Strangely, I think we all can.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and only wish I'd read it before seeing the movie. It's a fast read and Bryant keeps us glued. Similar to the movie, the pace picks up relentlessly throughout until it's almost a deafening crescendo.

Enjoy the book, it's well worth your time.
There's little I can add about the quality of this book that hasn't already been written here in reviews. Still, I'd like to share my thoughts, however redundant they are.

Despite the long-ago culmination of the Cold War, this novel is an engrossing read. The geographic locations of America's enemies may have changed since publication (then again, maybe they haven't), but the story is still pertinent. In other words, the novel and its lessons aren't dated. On a personal note, I'm fascinated by the idea of living with the threat of nuclear war, as my parents did. Stories like Red Alert provide a window into that era and this one does so with an even hand, without political bias or heavy-handed messages. It lets you understand for yourself that the prevailing government mentalities of the Cold War and the escalation toward mutually assured destruction were insane.

The story is fast-paced, well-researched, and splendidly reported. I was particularly moved by the sacrifice of the crew of the Alabama Angel. There's a good blend of tense dialog and action, making it a terrific example in the military/political thriller genre.

Like others have said, it's hard to believe Dr. Strangelove was born out this novel. I love the movie (and now the book), and while there's a common thread that connects the two, the tone of each seems to me to be severely disconnected. Still, whether it's through the use of black humor or thrilling tension, this story is chilling and sobering.
What a great read. I have always enjoyed dr. Strangelove and after seeing the movie many times and reading several books about the fascinating history of the movie I came to a realization that I never read the novel upon which the movie is based.
So I did. The book Red Alert has many detractors and fans. Count me among the fans. I thought it was fantastic and a great analysis of cold war strategy and Mad. It was very tense and exciting. In the end I couldn't put it down as the Doomsday Clock ran down. I grew up doing h bomb drills and expecting to be turned radioactive dust and
found this book to be informative and worth the price.