

This comical interpretation of events aside, it is evident that whereas for millions freed from the tyranny of socialism behind the Iron Curtain, and indeed for the missile-adjacent dog walkers of West Berkshire, this was palpably “a good thing”, for Guy Shrubsole, it obviously came as something of a disappointment. the perimeter fence was torn down and common rights restored.”

with the sudden end of the Cold War, the cruise missiles left Greenham. The reader is given an early indication of what sort of book this is when the author gives us a potted history of the Cold War: “Ronald Reagan reversed years of détente with the Soviet Union and began calling it the Evil Empire.
