Most Secret War - British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1978, both book and dustwrapper in good condition, some neat notes and underlining on a few pages, white dustwrapper slightly yellowed with age, small tear on back fold (repaired), endpapers and pages clean and bright, binding excellent

Reginald Victor Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War. In Most Secret War he details how Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their intelligence at every turn. He tells of the 'battle of the beams'; detecting and defeating flying bombs; using chaff to confuse radar; and many other ingenious ideas and devices. Jones was the man with the plan to save Britain and his story makes for riveting reading...