The secret warBeskriver opfindelser og teknologiske fremskridt opstået under 2. verdenskrig. |
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User Review - Miro - LibraryThingBrian Johnson was a BBC science writer and in The Secret War he looks at the Second World War from the viewpoint of a war between the scientists and technologists of the two sides. Arguably it was the ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction A Letter from Oslo | 9 |
The Battle of the Beams | 11 |
Radar | 63 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The secret war |
| Author | Brian Johnson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | British Broadcasting Corporation, 1978 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 11, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0563174250, 9780563174257 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Military / World War II World War, 1939-1945 |
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