Human smoke

[TAXICAT]

Read this very interesting book by Nickolson Baker. Human Smoke It is about events leading up to WW2

[civil defense]

Here is an interesting book about the build up at the beginning of the World War 2
http://www.amazon.com/Fort-Hood-Worl...1Y950BM627PF78
The above link is to amazon. you can flip through the first ten pages or so.