Blackett's War

The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Operations Research, History, Military, Strategy, World War II
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Author: Stephen Budiansky ISBN: 9780307962638
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: February 19, 2013
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Stephen Budiansky
ISBN: 9780307962638
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: February 19, 2013
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

A Washington Post Notable Book

In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to 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.

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A Washington Post Notable Book

In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to 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.

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