Yardley, PA: Westholme, Date: 2010. xiii, 323 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In August 1940, a German invasion of Britain looked inevitable. Luftwaffe bombers were pounding British cities, France had surrendered, and the Low Countries were under German control. Although sympathetic to Britain's plight, the United States remained staunchly neutral. Unknown to the rest of the world, Britain's brightest scientific and military minds had been working on futuristic technology for a decade, including radar and jet propulsion. While the great value of radar to locate and identify objects at long distance and at night or in bad weather was appreciated, at the time it was thought that practical radar required a room-sized device for generating an effective signal. Now, suddenly, British scientists had something extraordinary--the cavity magnetron, a generator hundreds of times more powerful than any other in use and small enough to be held in the hand. With the British economy and industry reeling from the war, Winston Churchill gambled on an unorthodox plan: a team of scientists and engineers would travel under cover to the United States and give the still-neutral Americans the best of Britain's military secrets. It was hoped that in exchange the United States would provide financial and manufacturing support--which might even lead to their official entry into the war. The Tizard ...

Yardley, PA: Westholme, Date: 2010 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, dj has minor curling along the edges. 2010. Westholme ISBN 159416116x 9781594161162 [US]

Yardley, PA Westholme 2010 First Edition/First Printing Hardcover As New in Fine jacket Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, dj has minor curling along the edges.