Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II

by Norman Fine

Book Overview

Late in 1939 Nazi Germany was poised to overrun Europe and extend Adolf Hitler's fascist control. At the same time, however, two British physicists invented the resonant cavity magnetron. About the size of a hockey puck, it unlocked the enormous potential of radar exclusively for the Allies.

Since the discovery of radar early in the twentieth century, development across most of the world had progressed only incrementally. Germany and Japan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640122206
• ISBN13: 9781640122208
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"