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Orford Ness was so secret a place that most people have never heard of it. The role played in inventing and testing weapons over the course of the twentieth century was far more significant and much longer than that of Bletchley Park. Nestled on a remote part of the Suffolk coast, Orford Ness operated for over eighty years as a highly classified research and testing site for the British military, the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and, at one point the US Department of Defence. The work conducted here by some of the greatest 'boffins' of past generations played a crucial role in winning three great wars of the twentieth century: the first, Second and the Cold. Hosting dangerous early night-flying and parachute testing during the First Wrold War, the ingenious radar trials by Watson Watt and his team in the 19030s, through to the testing of nuclear bombs and the top-secret UK-US COBRA MIST project, the 'Ness' has been at the forefront of military technology from 1913 to the 1990s. Now a unique National Trust Property and National Nature Reserve, its secrets have remained buried until recently. This book reveals an incredible history, rich with ingenuity, intrigue and typical British inventiveness.
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PADDY HEAZELL read history at Queens' College, Cambridge, then went into teaching, eventually becoming Headmaster of three schools. He has written extensively on a wide variety of subjects. He regularly lectures on the history of Orford Ness and its secrets. DICK STRAWBRIDGE MBE is an ex-Army Lieutenant-Colonel, who is passionate about military history. He is best known for presenting It's Not Easy Being Green, Coast, and Scrapheap Challenge.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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An essential companion to any visit to the National Trust's most intriguing landscape, and perfect for the armchair traveller or historian who cannot make it up to this deliciously desolate and historically/environmentally important stretch of the Suffolk coast. Well researched by someone with a very real interest and a real insight, and some excellent illustrations and period photographs.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Clearly a lot of work has gone into the writing of the book, an immense about of research for which we are indebted to Paddy Heazell. However, his writing skills do not quite match and the book is therefore hard going. If it were not for the fact that I have a great interest in Orford Ness and that the writer has revealed many hitherto unpublished secrets of the Ness, I would have given up reading after the first chapter.
There seems to be no continuity in the story and the reader therefore finds him/herself being taken on a journey that dances around all over the place. One minute we are in the year 1913 and then suddenly we are talking about events years later and then thrust back to an earlier or a later year. Names are brought in and taken out and then brought in again. It demands constant concentration of a type that quickly tires and consequently forces the reader to read small chunks and put the book down to recover. The research you have done is outstanding Paddy, but perhaps it needed someone else to write it?
But don't be put of buying the book by what I've said here. It's worth every penny and more and the secrets it reveals will amaze and enthrall.
There seems to be no continuity in the story and the reader therefore finds him/herself being taken on a journey that dances around all over the place. One minute we are in the year 1913 and then suddenly we are talking about events years later and then thrust back to an earlier or a later year. Names are brought in and taken out and then brought in again. It demands constant concentration of a type that quickly tires and consequently forces the reader to read small chunks and put the book down to recover. The research you have done is outstanding Paddy, but perhaps it needed someone else to write it?
But don't be put of buying the book by what I've said here. It's worth every penny and more and the secrets it reveals will amaze and enthrall.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book because I will be attending one of Mr Heazell's talks in January 2012 and wanted to see what I had let myself in for. I was captivated from the first chapter, as I live in Suffolk I was aware of Orford Ness and its environs but was totally bowled over by the military history that had been formulated in a relatively short time in a remote part of East Anglia. I can recommend it to those interested in scientific development over the 20th century and its crucial part in two World Wars.
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It's interesting especial if read inconjunction with the Development of Radar; it's a wonder that the British didn't keep it for developing and testing of missiles.
Published 11 months ago by Frederick C. Long
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I have bought several copies of this book for friends. This is an insight into a very secret site which is now owned by National Trust. It is an important place in our history.
Published 13 months ago by Olly
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I have been on a tour of the Orford Ness military sites lead by Paddy Heazell who is very entertaining and knowledgeable. I looked forward to reading his book when published. Read more
Published 18 months ago by A. McManus
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