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Secret warriors : key scientists, code breakers and propagandists of the Great War / by Taylor Downing.

Title
Secret warriors : key scientists, code breakers and propagandists of the Great War / by Taylor Downing.
Author
Downing, Taylor
Publication
London : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.

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304 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
Summary
The First World War is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this a scientific war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, and intelligence gatherers.
Subject
  • 1914-1918
  • BLANK AUTHORITY TEXT
  • Warfare and defence
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Cryptography
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Propaganda
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Science
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
New century, new world -- Part 1: Aviators. The pioneers ; The new science ; Observing the war -- Part 2: Code breakers. Room 40 ; The Great Game -- Part 3: Engineers and chemists. The gunners' war ; The yellow-green cloud ; Breaking the stalemate -- Part 4: Doctors and surgeons. The body ; The mind -- Part 5: Propagandists. The war of words ; The war in pictures ; Masters of information -- Epilogue: The first boffins.
ISBN
  • 9781408704219 (hbk.)
  • 1408704218 (hbk.)
OCLC
871410345
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library