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Name: Warday
Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Author: Whitley Strieber

Warday presents a tense narrative of a limited nuclear war between the United States and the USSR, followed by the immediate aftermath and the broader implications of nuclear conflict during the Cold War era.

First publish date: April 1985

Genre: Dystopian & Apocalyptic Fiction/Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Authors: Whitley Strieber

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