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Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Blind Bombing" explores the influence of microwave radar on World War II and tells the stories of those who worked on the secret invention from the laboratories to combat. Without microwave radar the outcome of D-Day would have been vastly different."
Late in 1939 Nazi Germany was poised to overrun Europe and extend Adolf Hitler's fascist control. At the same time, however, two British physicists invented the resonant cavity magnetron. About the...
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English
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A Washington Post Notable Book
In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, systematic implementation of
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