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There's lots more in The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 by R.V. Jones. https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-War-Scientific-Intelligence-1939-19

• ggm 8y ago
  Cannot recommend this book too highly. Also worth reading is anything about PMS Blackett and the birth of Operations Research, Barnes Wallis (the JP Morpugo biog is good), and Solly Zuckerman ("from apes to warlords") on the bombing accuracy issues, statistics and the 'transport plan' its not on kindle, but Robert Buderi's book on Radar is also worth reading. from the roots up to chips and microwave physics, amazing stuff
  • theoh 8y ago
    Thanks for this comment. I recently discovered that the inventor of PCM, Alec Reeves, was also involved in the development Oboe system for guidance of bombers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Reeves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Reeves (the offsite reference pages are particularly good) I get the sense that he was much less of a mover and shaker than either Blackett or Zuckerman. By the same token, I wonder if they have been idolized a bit (even though I had never heard of them, and their names are clearly not heard very often these days.)
• timrichard 8y ago
  He also features a lot in the 70's BBC Series, 'The Secret War'. A compilation of it seems to be on YouTube (for the time being). The Battle of the Beams is the first segment : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCF-Ufapu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCF-Ufapu8
• pmyteh 8y ago
  Published in Britain as 'Most Secret War', in case anyone else us looking for a copy and surprised that they're all American and/or expensive...