View Over Atlantis

by John Michell

The breaching of the dams in Germany's industrial heartland was to have a pivotal effect. A triumph for Allied thinking and courage, it convinced Roosevelt to commit to the invasion of Italy and the countdown to the D-Day landings. Sixty years on, The Dambusters describes how the pilots overcame the odds to pull off one of the most astonishing military successes in history. Accompanying a major television series, the book uses contemporary re-enactments to show just what an astonishing feat the mission was. Lavishly illustrated, it captures the brilliance of the scientists and the bravery of the crews, as well as the enormous impact their success had on the outcome of war.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

John Frederick Carden Michell was an English writer whose key sources of inspiration were Plato and Charles Fort. His 1969 volume The View Over Atlantis has been described as probably the most influential book in the history of the hippy/underground movement and one that had far-reaching effects on the study of strange phenomena: it "put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British landscape and made Glastonbury the capital of the New Age."

In some 40-odd titles over five decades he examined, often in pioneering style, such topics as sacred geometry, earth mysteries, geomancy, gematria, archaeoastronomy, metrology, euphonics, simulacra and sacred sites, as well as Fortean phenomena. An abiding preoccupation was the Shakespeare authorship question. His Who Wrote Shakespeare? (1996) was reckoned by The Washington Post "the best overview yet of the authorship question."

Reviews

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although I read it a long time ago and I had to skip over the geometrical formulas at times, it was an ejoyable read. Maybe now that there is so much attention being paid to what mainstream archaeology cannot fit into their tidy narrow minded timeline, more people might begin to find out that what is mentioned in this book, repeats itself all over the globe.

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full of lots of quirky fun facts. I like it. =)

[Trevor Kiddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Lysergius · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but left me largely unmoved.