The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 159416116X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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susan said One of the BEST books I have ever read!!!!!!!!. Great book, excellent condition. Amazing story of the cooperation of Britain and US in 19One of the BEST books I have ever read!!!!!!!! susan Great book, excellent condition. Amazing story of the cooperation of Britain and US in 1940's. and the capability of the scientists who were brilliant at perfecting radar and microwaves. So much hard guts work for the war effort became every day convenience items afterward. Mankind at it's best working to preserve democracy and defeat communism.. 0's. and the capability of the scientists who were brilliant at perfecting radar and microwaves. So much hard guts work for the war effort became every day convenience items afterward. Mankind at it's best working to preserve democracy and defeat communism.. Interesting history of Radar I enjoyed the book thoroughly. It is a fine page turner. It is a good layman's book on the history of radar development. Most students of WW2 history are aware that radar had a profound effect on the Battle of Britain. Few however are aware of the British and American collaboration on its later stages of development. This book is a follow up to . "Fills in the Details, A Bit Too Much" according to Wayne Lucas. In my mind's simplistic and constantly shifting portrait of World War II, a line of radar towers stands stalwartly along the English coast to remind me of their importance to the Battle of Britain occurring overhead. The spacious expanse between the battle above and towers below, though, is a constant reminder of one nagging question: how did ra
. He lives in London and Italy. STEPHEN PHELPS is a writer, producer, and broadcaster. After fifteen years in television investigative journalism for the BBC and Channel 4, he turned to writing and now specializes in history and radio drama
They brought information on nuclear fission, on jet propulsion, and, most important, on technology for vastly improved radar (the key to that, the cavity magnetron, now adorns most kitchens in the land as the microwave oven). The British attached no strings to any of their gifts, which vastly aided the postwar American economic boom; the Americans greeted their British colleagues with very close to open arms. A long-overdue resurrection of Tizard and his colleagues. --Roland Green . Led by Sir Henry Tizard, a group of top British scientists crossed the Atlantic to meet with their American counterparts, whom FDR had already mobilized as a new and top-secret brain trust. From Booklist This erudite, literate, and thoroughly absorbing piece of WWII history tells of the British decision to make a free gift of much advanced technology to the U.S
Luftwaffe bombers were pounding British cities, France had surrendered, and the Low Countries were under German control. Unknown to the rest of the world, Britain’s brightest scientific and military minds had been working on futuristic technology for a decade, including radar and jet propulsion. With the British economy and industry reeling from the war, Winston Churchill gambled on an unorthodox plan: a team of scientists and engineers would travel under cover to the United States and give the still-neutral Americans the best of Britain’s military secrets. Now, suddenly, British scientists had something extraordinary—the cavity magnetron, a generator hundreds of times more powerful than any other in use and small enough to be held in the hand. As Stephen Phelps reveals in this much needed book, the United Kingdom’s decision to share its secrets with the United States was a key turning point in the Second World War.”—JOHN LIFFEN, Curator, Science Museum, LondonIn Augus