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Fairlie's Secret War - How One Village Helped Defeat German U-Boats (Paperback)
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Fairlie's Secret War - How One Village Helped Defeat German U-Boats (Paperback)
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Loot Price R460
Discovery Miles 4 600
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During the Second World War the Royal Navy's vitally important
Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from
Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie, to escape
German bombing on the south coast. For the next six years it
occupied the boatyard of yacht builder William Fife on the Firth of
Clyde. During this time, highly confidential world-leading research
on the acoustic detection of submarines by asdic - now known as
sonar - was carried out by hundreds of scientists, officers and
local men and women based at Fairlie. As experiments took place
into new ways of sinking German U-boats, the peace of the quiet
village was shattered. Winston Churchill described the work done at
Fairlie as critical to winning the Battle of the Atlantic and
ultimately the war. The research remained relevant to
anti-submarine warfare long after the war, and is still relevant
today. Fairlie's role in the war was not disclosed until relatively
recently. Highly illustrated throughout and making use of
previously unpublished material, this book tells the full story of
the establishment at Fairlie for the first time. It describes the
impact it had on local people, and their relationship with the
naval officers and scientists who came to work there.
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