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

by Stephen Budiansky

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307743632
• ISBN13: 9780307743633
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"