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The Effect of Science on the Second World War
Hartcup, Guy; Lovell, Sir Bernard
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Paperback. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWM; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
The latest advances in science were fully exploited in the Second World War. They included radar, sonar, improved radio, methods of reducing disease, primitive computers, the new science of operational research and, finally, the atomic bomb, necessarily developed like all wartime technology in a remarkably short time. Such progress would have been impossible without the cooperation of Allied scientists with the military. The Axis powers' failure to recognise this was a major factor in their defeat.
The latest advances in science were fully exploited in the Second World War. They included radar, sonar, improved radio, methods of reducing disease, primitive computers, the new science of operational research and, finally, the atomic bomb, necessarily developed like all wartime technology in a remarkably short time. Such progress would have been impossible without the cooperation of Allied scientists with the military. The Axis powers' failure to recognise this was a major factor in their defeat.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403906434
SKU
V9781403906434
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99-15
About Hartcup, Guy; Lovell, Sir Bernard
GUY HARTCUP served in the British and Indian Armies 1939-45 after which he took an Honours Degree at Cambridge in 1947. From 1948-60 we worked as an Historian in the Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry. He then became an English editor with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna from 1961-2. After returning to England the author was ... Read more
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