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Title | : | Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base |
Author | : | Annie Jacobsen |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 540 pages |
Published | : | May 17th 2011 by Little, Brown and Company |
Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Science. War. Military Fiction. Politics. Audiobook |
Annie Jacobsen
Hardcover | Pages: 540 pages Rating: 3.77 | 6121 Users | 921 Reviews
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Area 51 It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn’t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada’s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In Area 51, Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror. This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public, Area 51 weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.Itemize Books Supposing Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Original Title: | Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base |
ISBN: | 0316132942 (ISBN13: 9780316132947) |
Edition Language: | English URL https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/annie-jacobsen/area-51/9780316178075/ |
Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2011) |
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Ratings: 3.77 From 6121 Users | 921 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Short review: "I've been saying for years: The Shadow Government already has scare-goat related disinfo hypnology. Schaeffer T. DarklordMedium review: I want to call this book pure propaganda. But, it is not. Its highly muddled propaganda and disinformation. I'll try to ravel this poorly told tale in the Long Review.Long review: 1) This book is not about Area 51. It is about the A-12 Oxcart. If you want to read about the Oxcart program, I recommend you seek more coherent information elsewhere.A great deal has been written about the Nevada Test and Training Range, much of it disinformation, much of it rumor or nonsense. Jacobsen's Area 51, based in part on public record, in part on interviews, is an accessible and generally accurate history of the area and what has occurred there since 1951, all of it originally secret, much of it profoundly disquieting.Running as a leit motif throughout the book is reference to what happened outside Roswell, NM in 1947, an event finally explained in
The discussions of the pilots and engineers in the overflight programs was awesome. The tale of the intra-agency fratricide between the CIA and the Air Force was brilliant. These two themes alone make the book worth reading. But the reader must be forewarned that the quality of this book fluctuates wildly. The ups and downs, in the detail and in simple (hopefully) editorial errors distracted and diminished the overall quality. And ... really ... either find the smoking alien or just avoid the
Right up to the last chapter this was really interesting, detailed and plausible. Time brings many secrets to light, either through lapse from their secret status, in response to direct FOI requests, or when a witness decides to spill the beans, and the biggie here is saved till last. Jacobsen is interesting in her accounts of the U-2 and A-12 ('Oxcart') projects, especially the power struggles over control of the latter. She has no time for the reality of UFOs, but we are invited to consider
Wow! It sure is hot in the desert. Hey, why does that rattle snake have two heads?""I can tell you.""Oh, helloI didnt see you there, just talking to myself and the snake---s. Im Stephanie, and who are you and what are you doing in the middle of the Mojave Desert?""I could ask you the same thing. Im Annie Jacobson, I wrote a book about Area 51. Its just over the hill there.""The hill with the two Hummers on it? Hey, and there seems to be a couple guys with guns..uhpointing in our direction.
Annie Jacobsen is obsessed with secrecy. Her other book, Operation Paperclip, deals with the hidden machinations of the US government after WW II to find and import Nazi scientists who had special expertise in rocketry and chemical weapons.This book details the hidden history of Area 51, an ultra-secret location (officially it doesnt exist) in the Nevada desert just next to the atomic weapons testing area. Supposedly created by the CIA in 1955 for U-2 flights, Jacobsen discovered it had been set
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