BATTLE OF THE BEAMS (RADAR/ SECOND WORLD WAR) (PB)

Summer 1939 and war is coming. The British believe that they alone have a war-winning weapon: radar. They are wrong. They believe that their unique maritime history means their pilots have no need of navigational aids and that the Germans, without the same naval tradition, will never be able to find targets at night. Again, they are wrong. The Germans have developed radio beams to guide their own planes into enemy airspace. Luckily, one young engineer is able to convince Churchill, and a room full of sceptics, just how much danger they’re in. Relying on first-hand accounts from Reginald Jones as well as papers recently released by the Admiralty, this account combines history, science, derring do and dogged determination and will appeal as much to fans of World War II history as to those fascinated by the science behind the beams that changed our lives.