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...scrambling fighters, another is reported elsewhere ... In case of a suspected attack, the hot lines would carry a call which is no drill: Air Defense Readiness. At the signal, all military aircraft are to be armed, fueled and manned, all defense forces called to duty, the White House and top officials notified--but not the public. Next signal, when the incoming aircraft prove "manifestly hostile in intent": Yellow Alert, to set off air-raid sirens, ground all civilian planes. Final signal: Red Alert, meaning World War III. By then, bombs, and perhaps the bombers, would be plunging earthward...
...much more intimate, and not only because any son could be drafted to serve. Women went without their nylons and saved their bacon grease to make explosives and planted victory gardens. People on the coastlines drove 20 m.p.h. after dark, their headlights partially blacked out, or volunteered as air-raid wardens or donated their rubber raincoats and tires and bathing caps, even though they couldn't be recycled for military use. It had the effect of pulling people together, uniting them behind the cause...
...With a fascinating French twist, the action takes place during the Nazi occupation. Where most detective fiction involves a city unofficially run by gangsters, here the villains are outwardly in control. As atmospheres go, it doesn't get much more corrupt and poisonous than this. On streets darkened by air-raid blackout conditions and plastered with anti-Semitic propaganda, Burma goes about his stoic business...
...Alexanderplatz bunker was Berlin's largest civilian air-raid shelter, built to accommodate 3,000 people in 55 rooms. It now houses 200 performance and installation artists from around the world, whose work includes rooms containing a depiction of Dante's vision of heaven, a reconstructed department store complete with sales staff to greet visitors, and an Adam-and-Eve tableau featuring an apple tree?and that...
...show, particularly one that's supposed to celebrate heaven, but don't tell that to Torsten Römer. "The tension between a place so burdened with history and a spiritual subject such as paradise is just so fitting," he says. The Alexanderplatz bunker was Berlin's largest civilian air-raid shelter, built to accommodate 3,000 people in 55 rooms. It now houses 200 performance and installation artists from around the world, whose work includes rooms containing a depiction of Dante's vision of heaven, a reconstructed department store complete with sales staff to greet visitors, and an Adam...