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-World-Images-America/dp/1467134716/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1447903390&sr=8-2&keywords=fort+hood&pebp=1447903399734&perid=0TNRXJ1Y950BM627PF78
The above link is to amazon. you can flip through the first ten pages or so.