Author: Johnson, Brian,
Title: THE SECRET WAR.
Description: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), London, 1978, 1st edn., 352pp, half tone photo pictorial half title and frontis, numerous in text half tone photo and line illustrations, large format (10 x 7 inches), grey cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, expanded from the BBC TV series of the same name, WW2 as fought by the scientists and technicians; Luftwaffe navigational beams and the countermeasures; the development and use of radar in defence and aircraft navigation; the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket; the battle against the u-boats incl. the development of new weapons, new vessels and new tactics; the countering the German mines; many special weapons; and the work at Bletchley Park in the breaking of the codes produced by the Enigma machines, boards rubbed along upper and lower edges, dustwrapper: rubbed with loss at extrems., repaired to reverse, very good in a good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 bbc tv tie-in beams knickebein x-gerat y-gerat oboe radar h2s magnetic acoustic mine hedgehog u-boat enigma ultra codes


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