Operation Manna — James Philip

In the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe of the Cuban Missiles War of October 1962 the British government and its surviving Commonwealth allies were in a state of shock.

In Britain the priority was to restore the rule of law, to begin to piece together what was left of the country after the hammer blows which had obliterated London, Liverpool, Chatham, Gravesend, Canterbury and half-wrecked others.

This is what happened in the days and weeks after the first twenty-four hours of Armageddon.

Operation Manna is the story of how the nation was saved; filling in the history of those dreadful first months after the cataclysm...