Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare by Budiansky, Stephen

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307743633)

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Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare by Budiansky, Stephen

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

$20.00
Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare by Budiansky, Stephen

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

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Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Stephen Budiansky
ISBN-10: 0307743632
ISBN-13: 9780307743633
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
By Stephen Budiansky
By Stephen Budiansky
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Stephen Budiansky is the author of seventeen books about military history, intelligence and espionage, science, the natural world, and other subjects. His most recent books are Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union and Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel.

Budiansky's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times magazine and op-ed pages, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Economist, and many other publications. He is a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, the scholarly journal of cryptology and intelligence history, and is on the American Heritage Dictionary's Usage Panel. He lives on a small farm in Loudoun County, Virginia.

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