{"product_id":"blacketts-war-stephen-budiansky-9780307743633","title":"Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Budiansky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307743632\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307743633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Stephen Budiansky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946417193215,"sku":"9780307743633","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b7dc0b22-4dee-431b-8d4b-150df34f3738.jpg?v=1681513028","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blacketts-war-stephen-budiansky-9780307743633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}