Game changing. Juche is to shape the cultural zeitgeist just as The Little Book of Hygge did.

A book to bring shame upon our depraved morals and our wilted-spinach governments.

As dry as it is daft, I loved it.

Julie McDowall's thoroughly gripping study ... makes for genuinely startling and sometimes darkly funny reading... [it's] brilliantly chilling and sparkily engaging

Attack Warning Red! is a timely reminder of the mind-blanking horror of nuclear warfare, as it menaces Europe once more

Simultaneously horrifying, weirdly nostalgic and darkly hilarious

Impossible to believe, just as hard to put down. Urgent. Terrifying

Superb ... a lucid, totally compulsive read from beginning to end, chilling as well as profoundly empathetic in tone

Brilliant and unforgettable ... A beautifully writtern horror story and amazing work of research ... Julie McDowall has made the unreadable compulsive and the unthinkable thinkable, but above all this is a book that cherishes humanity in all its absurdity, intelligence, vulnerability, courage and, against all odds, belief in hope and survival

Captivating, chilling, and at times darkly humorous. A fascinating insight into Britain's preparations for surviving Armageddon, and the ghastly reality of what the aftermath of a nuclear war would actually be like

Fascinating

How to prepare for Armageddon? Julie McDowell has written the best exploration yet of how successive British administrations grappled with the challenge of living under the shadow of nuclear war, with depth, compassion and very necessary dark humour

This by turns harrowing and farcical book charts the reality of living under constant threat of nuclear oblivion

Timely ... harrowing ... farcical ... the most surprising aspect of Attack Warning Red!, however, is that, alongside generous helpings of fear and unease, it carries a strong charge of nostalgia

Attack Warning Red! effectively pulls together many strands from this unsettling aspect of British history and weaves them in a way that will alarm and entertain

A fascinating read

An atomic Dad's Army, McDowall's history of the UK's nuclear civil defence is full of hilarious gems

McDowall's book has the tone of a podcast [...] She leads her audience round bunkers, propaganda films and government records, pointing out the horrifying, the unexpected and the absurd

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An unsettling festive read