The Secret War
(2020)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2020
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (352 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9781473819658 MWT13057833, 1473819652 13057833
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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