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Blackett's war : the men who defeated the Nazi U-boats and brought science to the art of warfare

Budiansky, Stephen

Overview

In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet called upon an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, systematic implementation of simple mathematics and probability theory. This is the story of how British and American civilian intellectuals helped change the nature of twentieth-century warfare, by convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the new field of operational research. -- Back cover.

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Subject: Blackett, P. M. S. Baron Blackett, 1897-1974. / World War, 1939-1945 Radar. / World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine. / Anti-submarine warfare History 20th century. / World War, 1939-1945 Atlantic Ocean.
• ISBN: 9780307743633, 0307743632

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