Description
Product ID: | 9780141042824 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin World War II Collection |
Title: | Most Secret War |
Authors: | Author: R.V. Jones |
Page Count: | 608 |
Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, European history, History, Second World War, Military intelligence, British & Irish history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Military intelligence, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Details how Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their intelligence at every turn. This book talks about the 'battle of the beams'; detecting and defeating flying bombs; using chaff to confuse radar; and, many other ingenious ideas and devices. Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain''s Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-08-06 |