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The Secret War
Brian Johnson

The Secret War

Methuen (1978)
9780458933402
| Hardcover
352 pages | English
Dewey 940.54/86/41
LC Classification D810.S2 .J63 1978
LC Control No. 77018632

Subject

  • World War, 1939-1945 - Science
  • World War, 1939-1945 - Technology

Plot

Orginally a TV tie-in expanded from the BBC televison series, the book covers the behind-the-scenes aspects of the fight by the 'back room' scientists and technicians of WW2, including the battles against the Luftwaffe navigational beams, the V-1 and V-2 flying bombs, the development of radar, the battle against the u-boats, countering the magnetic mine, and the breaking of the codes produced by the Enigma machines

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