--- product_id: 6032865 title: "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" price: "€ 43.95" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/6032865-area-51-an-uncensored-history-of-americas-top-secret-military store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base **Price:** € 43.95 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base - **How much does it cost?** € 43.95 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/6032865-area-51-an-uncensored-history-of-americas-top-secret-military) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time. "Compellingly hard-hitting." ― New York Times It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government―but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In Area 51 , Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror. This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public, Area 51 weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make. Review: Better than fiction - An incredible history! Unbelievable and yet researched and documented. Impressively dense with facts and sheer story it is absolutely readable and engaging. I’ll be reading this book again and again because there is so much to it. Review: Good book - Great read ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #19,598 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Nuclear Weapons & Warfare History (Books) #7 in Communication & Media Studies #16 in American Military History | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,345 Reviews | ## Images ![Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tkepVLjSL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Better than fiction *by J***E on July 22, 2026* An incredible history! Unbelievable and yet researched and documented. Impressively dense with facts and sheer story it is absolutely readable and engaging. I’ll be reading this book again and again because there is so much to it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book *by J***I on July 2, 2026* Great read ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating but with a fairly glaring issue *by M***N on October 17, 2020* This is an absolutely fascinating book. Many won't like it because they prefer to be spoon-fed fan fiction and to be soothingly reassured like children that Bob Lazar's fables are genuine; luckily she steers mostly clear of that (despite giving Lazar too much credit in some places as anything other than the clear fraud that he is). I can't vouch for all her claims about specific people, events and places. Some people here who have written detailed reviews critiquing things that she got wrong seem to now a lot more about the history of US aerospace, defense and secret projects than I do, so I'll defer to their knowledge if Jacobsen got any of that stuff wrong but even so, the overall message and the nature and breadth of the programs that have gone on at Area 51 (and the Nevada Test Site) are the important things for me. Many of the details are straight from the mouths of the people who actually worked there, which was fascinating. However, I did notice that she talked a lot about things that didn't go on in Area 51 itself (like the NERVA tests), and I wonder how long the book would have been if those were excised. Still, I'm glad that they were included because it gives more of a sense for how the region adjoining Area 51 has been involved in highly classified projects and how Area 51 is more properly thought of as part of a larger complex of operations and secrets rather than just something out there by itself. In other words, critiquing the book on the basis that it talked quite extensively about things beyond the jurisdiction of Area 51 is a bit unfair because the NTS is such an integral part of the context and meaning of the base. Now, where the book fell down for me was with the explanation for Area 51's establishment, as conveyed to her by her source (the EG&G engineer). The problem isn't that she included it, per se. It's that, given that she did, she might as well have expanded more on the other conspiratorial and tin-foil hat dimensions (such as aliens, the Lazar fable, and other such stories) that gives the base such a degree of mystique in the public eye. She does talk about them, but not all that much, and overall she gives the EG&G engineer's story the most attention out of these tin-foil hat stories (to be fair, she had been interviewing the guy for a year). I'm going to just come out and say it: the story conveyed by her source is an absolute pile of crap. We're supposed to believe that Stalin deliberately sent highly classified and radically advanced technology to the US on a silver platter - at a time when the US had a monopoly on the atomic bomb. We're supposed to believe that electromagnetic propulsion was being used in the 1940s - yet that the US and Soviet pilots were trundling around in jet-powered aircraft throughout the entirety of the Cold War instead. Surely, if the Soviets felt they were at liberty to spare one of these super-exotic discs to "send a warning shot over Truman's bow", they would have also felt sufficiently advanced in this area of technology (along with long-range remote control from a plane flying near Alaska to guide the Horten-derived disc it to New Mexico!) to churn these things out on a massive scale. Yet there is zero evidence for such a thing. The Soviets didn't fly spy planes over the US; the opposite was true. The Soviets didn't master stealth technology; the Americans did. The Soviet archives have been opened to the West for decades now and nothing like what her source says has been revealed, which you would think they should have if they got a head start on the technology, were using it, and were just as fanatical about pushing the limits of science and technology to win the Cold War and the Arms Race as the US was. The Mengele connection was absurd as well. How could Stalin be sure that the US wouldn't simply spill the beans on such an atrocity? I think that the source was either crazy, delusional or deliberately pulling her leg. As for the "S-4" reference: he clearly got that either from Lazar's story (which he was trying to emulate; Lazar came out with his story in 1989 and it was well known throughout the 90s. Jacobsen interviewed her source in 2010) or he got it from where Lazar probably got it: the "S-4" facility at Tonopah Test Range (which actually does exist, unlike the ridiculous "arms to your side" clown-show that Lazar wants us to believe) that Lazar likely heard from a friend of his who worked at TTR. I highly recommend this book. 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