| Cold War Oklahoma Contributor(s): Brewer, Landry (Author), Burke, Bob (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1467142255 ISBN-13: 9781467142250 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical - History | Military - Nuclear Warfare |
| LCCN: 2018966330 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Oklahoma might seem like an unexpected place for Cold War tensions to boil over, but the state played a key role in a conflict that threatened global annihilation. Altus Air Force Base served as a hub for twelve intercontinental ballistic missile launch s |
Contributor Bio(s): Brewer, Landry: - Landry Brewer is Bernhardt Scholar and instructor of history for Southwestern Oklahoma State University and teaches at the Sayre campus. Although he has been published multiple times in the journal of the Oklahoma Historical Society, several times in western Oklahoma newspapers and has written two one-act plays that have been performed, this is Brewer's first book. He and his wife, Erin, have five children and live in Elk City. |