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The Battle of the Beams - The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War (Hardcover)
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The Battle of the Beams - The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War (Hardcover)
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'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama
and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of
Harrier 809 The radio war of 1939-45 is one of the great scientific
battles in history. This is the story of that war. Relying on
first-hand accounts as well as papers recently released by the
Admiralty, The Battle of the Beams fills a huge missing piece in
the canon of WW2 literature. It combines history, science, derring
do and dogged determination and will appeal as much to fans of WW2
history as to those fascinated by the science behind the beams that
changed our lives. The British believed that, through ingenuity and
scientific prowess, they alone have a war-winning weapon: radar.
They are wrong. The Germans have it too. They believe that their
unique maritime history means their pilots have no need of
navigational aids. Flying above the clouds they, like the seafarers
of old, had the stars to guide them, and that is all that is
required. They are wrong. Most of the bombs the RAF will drop in
the first years of the war land miles from their target. They also
believe that the Germans, without the same naval tradition, will
never be able to find targets at night. They are, again, wrong. In
1939 the Germans don't just have radar to spot planes entering
their airspace, they have radio beams to guide their own planes
into enemy airspace. Luckily there was one young engineer, Reginald
Jones, helping the British government with their own scientific
developments. In June 1940, when Jones quietly explained the beams
the Germans had devised to a room full of disbelieving sceptics,
Churchill later described the moment as like sitting in the parlour
while Sherlock Holmes finally reveals the killer. Churchill
immediately supported Jones's efforts to develop radar technology
that went on to help the Allies win the war.
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