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Alas, Babylon

The novel, Alas Babylon, written by Pat Frank depicts the portrait of a small Florida town's great efforts to survive the consequences of an extreme nuclear war. It conveys the story of a war that did not actually occur. In realism, a devastating nuclear struggle that practically destroys civilization in the United States occurs. This book describes the pinnacle of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, which was in the late 1950s and early 1960s.But the novel is eventually more concerned in ordinary everyday people than in international political affairs. The story focuses mostly on the small town of Fort Repose, Florida, and how its residents are forced to deal with a new situation that has never been handled before. Organization and order fails in Fort Repose. However, during the latter parts of the novel is gradually refurbished. With the help of collaboration in friendship between the main characters, this is why Fort Repose is coming back into order again. D...

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