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Triumph (1962)

par Philip Wylie

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In the world's upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: fourteen people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to maintain their subsistence for upwards of two years. The group includes a forward-thinking millionaire and his family, a levelheaded Jewish scientist, a playboy, an aging African American servant and his daughter, a gigolo and the glamorous woman who has been his mistress, a beautiful Chinese girl, a young meter reader, two children, and a Japanese engineer. Fully aware of the outcome of the war that had raged briefly above them, the survivors seethe with hatred, fall into depression over their losses, rise to moments of superhuman bravery, and lapse into behavior that reflects their human weaknesses. Philip Wylie mercilessly predicts the inevitable end of a world that continues to function as selfishly and as barbarously as our own.… (plus d'informations)
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 Name that Book: Underground complex after a nuclear war31 non-lus / 31MyriadBooks, Octobre 2013

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Connecticut, USA, ca 1965.
Den hovedrige forretningsmand, Vance Farr, har bygget et meget avanceret beskyttelsesrum, Sachems Vagt. Han får god brug for det, da russerne angriber USA med atomvåben. Angrebet sker pludseligt, så det er ret tilfældigt, hvem der når ned i beskyttelsesrummet. I alt 10 personer når ned. Det er Vance Farr, hans kone Valerie Farr, deres datter Faith Farr, hendes forlovede Kit Barlow, hendes ven og langvarige beundrer, den jødiske videnskabsmand Ben Barnman på 36 år, Farrs sorte butler, den midaldrende Paulus Davey, dennes datter Connie Davey. En gæst, Lotus Li, kaldet Lodi. En japaner, George Hyama, en ung mand på 28 år, Peter Williams, kaldet Pete, der tilfældigt kom forbi.
Valerie er ca 50 år gammel og alkoholiker.
En krise udvikler sig i Jugoslavien efter Titos forsvinden, russernes premierminister Grovskij truer USA's præsident David Connor med at udslette Paris og London, hvis Nato lægger hindringer i vejen for Jugoslaviens "befrielse". Kinas Tsin-Tsu bakker russerne op. Russerne forhandler på skrømt og sender imens et massivt angreb afsted. Treogtyve 5-megatons bomber sendes mod Washington-Baltimore området og 15 af dem når frem. På den første time når ca 1000 raketter med hver 5 megatons frem. Det stopper ikke et amerikansk modangreb af samme styrke i at nå frem, men mens Sovjetunionen synker sammen i brændende grus, er i tusindvis af elitearbejdere og forskere blevet samlet i sikre beskyttelsesrum. Det hele er led i en stor plan for at sikre russernes overtagelse af verdensherredømmet.
Efter det første angreb udløser russerne atomare miner tæt ved kysten og ovenover Farr's beskyttelsesrum når strålingen op på en million røntgen.
I en tunnel tæt på har fire andre overlevet, Alberto Rizzi kaldet Al, Angelica Rosa og to børn Dorothy Walker på 10 og Dick på 12 år. De ti i beskyttelsesrummet får reddet de fire andre med ind og så er de fjorten i alt.
Det er lidt pinligt for Vance og Valerie, for Angelica er en af Vance's elskerinder og det var derfor hun kendte til tunnellen. Ellers går livet sin gang i beskyttelsesrummet i dage, uger og måneder. De forsøger at kommunikere med andre via radio, men der er ingen tilbage i Nordamerika.
Et amerikansk hangarskib, Conner, har overlevet ved at søge til sydpolen og 4 atomubåde, Tiger Shark, White Shark, Whale Shark og Leopard Shark har også holdt sig uden for russernes overvågning. De er tålmodige og overvåger russerne efterhånden som de vover sig frem fra de underjordiske bunkere. Da de er overbeviste over at have opsporet alle, slipper de fire ubåde og hangarskibet helvede løs over russerne, der til gengæld får ram på alle fem af amerikanernes fartøjer.
Nede i beskyttelsesrummet får Kit kuller og går op uden beskyttelsesdragt. Ben hjælper ham ind igen, men Kit dør efter en dags tid. Ben bliver også syg, men overlever. Men på lånt tid. Selv om beskyttelsesrummet kun skal rumme 13 personer og har kostet i nærheden af 200 millioner dollars, så kan det ikke blive ved med at beskytte mod radioaktiviteten udenfor. Kun Australien og New Zealand har overlevet nogenlunde intakt.
De tretten i beskyttelsesrummet bliver til sidst evakueret af australierne. Derefter er USA helt tom og øde og uden navn.

Bogen er skrevet af en forfatter, der har gjort sig det helt klart hvad en atomkrig faktisk ville bringe med sig af ødelæggelser. Kun med det yderste af neglene er det sandsynligt at nogen overhovedet ville overleve, men ellers ville det jo være en ret kedelig historie. ( )
  bnielsen | Feb 10, 2013 |
This was an intense but fascinating read. Written at the height of the Cold War, there is a strong anti-Soviet sentiment that may be a turn-off for some readers. Some of the details are fascinating -- the items this man thought to stock his nuclear bunker with are just astounding (roller skates? really?) -- while other details related to the human response to a bombing are sensible but sickening. The suspense continues up to nearly the last page -- will the group survive and be rescued, or will they die in their shelter? For those who can handle the psychological baggage of reading about the destruction of the entire northern hemisphere, this is a recommended title. ( )
1 voter cattriona | Sep 24, 2010 |
Science fiction's most common motif is speculating on our future. Sometimes, though, it also gives a glimpse of our past. That is especially true with reissues of classic works, such as Philip Wylie's Triumph.

First published in 1963, Triumph is a heart-of-the-Cold War tale of nuclear apocalypse. The trigger of a cataclysmic World War III is a confrontation with Communists in a post-Tito Yugoslavia. Fourteen people gain shelter in a massive underground facility built by a wealthy businessman in a Connecticut mountain. It is stocked with equipment and supplies to enable them to survive for two years. Given the suddenness of the nuclear exchange, this is a rather randomly through together group. They include the millionaire, his wife, their daughter and her well-bred fiancee; the family's African-American butler and his daughter; a brilliant Jewish scientist, who also happens to have had Navy combat training; a gigolo and his mistress; two children separated from their parents in the holocaust; the daughter of a wealthy Chinese businessman; and a Japanese engineer. Although the scientist. Ben Bernman, is the most frequent focus, the group as a whole helps reflect the devastating impact of nuclear war and how individually and collectively they try to survive physically and psychologically.

While Triumph still fits in the mainstream of modern post-apocalyptic literature, its reissue also allows it to serve as a window on then-current American thought. First, there is no doubt this is a conflict between good and pure evil. In Wylie's hands, the nuclear exchange seems inevitable. The free world, he writes, never understood that "Russian Communist leaders had always been willing to pay any price whatsoever to conquer the world, so long as some world remained to be ruled in slavery, and so long as some of the Soviet elite survived to be its rulers."

Thus, the Soviets not only strike with extreme nuclear force, they take long-planned steps to try to assure some survivability of its elite and possible control of regions in the southern hemisphere. The Soviets also don't hesitate to use dirty weapons to spew deadly radiation throughout the U.S. to attempt to ensure it will be unlivable and unusable for generations. Bernman frequently makes observations about the various types of radiation used and released in the weapons and their effects. That detail perhaps is not surprising given that Wylie was at one time a special advisor to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Committee for Atomic Energy. Yet Wylie also goes to the personal level, exploring, for example, how persons with differing views on even building nuclear armaments can be driven to a fury and revenge that leads to additional nuclear exchanges even when most of a nation has been incinerated or poisoned.

From a domestic standpoint, the polyglot make-up of the survivors provides Wylie plenty of opportunity to comment on a variety of social issues, not the least being race and male-female relations. The language reflects the book's time, with occasional references to "colored people" and "Negro." Still, Wylie is never overbearing in his examination of those issues. For example, race is explored not only in the context of the issues presented by the civil rights movement but also by discussing racial problems that arose between the Chinese and Japanese.

Balance of review here.
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In the world's upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: fourteen people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to maintain their subsistence for upwards of two years. The group includes a forward-thinking millionaire and his family, a levelheaded Jewish scientist, a playboy, an aging African American servant and his daughter, a gigolo and the glamorous woman who has been his mistress, a beautiful Chinese girl, a young meter reader, two children, and a Japanese engineer. Fully aware of the outcome of the war that had raged briefly above them, the survivors seethe with hatred, fall into depression over their losses, rise to moments of superhuman bravery, and lapse into behavior that reflects their human weaknesses. Philip Wylie mercilessly predicts the inevitable end of a world that continues to function as selfishly and as barbarously as our own.

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