Author: Johnson, Brian,
Title: THE SECRET WAR.
Description: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), London, 1979, large format paperback, 352pp, numerous in text half tone photo and line illustrations, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches), photo pictorial wrappers, 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, well rubbed at extrems., creasing to wrappers, cnrs. inclined to curl, edges tanned, small ownership label half title, good reading copy,

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


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