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--The Wall Street Journal "A terrific story, exciting, illuminating, well told."
--Dallas Morning News "Lively and enlightening. . . . Budiansky knowingly and entertainingly re-creates the almost constant struggle between hidebound military traditionalists and the clever civilians who saved them."
--The Washington Post "Engaging. . . . A finely wrought and well-sourced social history of elite science's wartime mobilization. . . . A wonderful revisionist history of how intelligence derived from Bletchley Park's breakthroughs combined with Blackett's operational research to bypass and destroy the Nazi Wolfpacks."
--Fortune "Budiansky has mastered the difficulties of the story, making it very readable and compelling . . . an important work."
--New York Journal of Books "A fascinating and skilful blend of naval warfare, science, and British social history with a richly diverse cast of characters."
--World War II Magazine "Little-known story of the Allied scientists whose unconventional thinking helped thwart the Nazi U-boats in World War II . . . An excellent, well-researched account . . . an engrossing work rich in insights and anecdotes."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The little known history of a linchpin in the Allies' victory over the Nazis: Patrick Blackett. . . . For military history and science fans alike."
--Publishers Weekly
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--The Wall Street Journal "A terrific story, exciting, illuminating, well told."
--Dallas Morning News "Lively and enlightening. . . . Budiansky knowingly and entertainingly re-creates the almost constant struggle between hidebound military traditionalists and the clever civilians who saved them."
--The Washington Post "Engaging. . . . A finely wrought and well-sourced social history of elite science's wartime mobilization. . . . A wonderful revisionist history of how intelligence derived from Bletchley Park's breakthroughs combined with Blackett's operational research to bypass and destroy the Nazi Wolfpacks."
--Fortune "Budiansky has mastered the difficulties of the story, making it very readable and compelling . . . an important work."
--New York Journal of Books "A fascinating and skilful blend of naval warfare, science, and British social history with a richly diverse cast of characters."
--World War II Magazine "Little-known story of the Allied scientists whose unconventional thinking helped thwart the Nazi U-boats in World War II . . . An excellent, well-researched account . . . an engrossing work rich in insights and anecdotes."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The little known history of a linchpin in the Allies' victory over the Nazis: Patrick Blackett. . . . For military history and science fans alike."
--Publishers Weekly
Stephen Budiansky is the author of seventeen books about military history, intelligence and espionage, science, the natural world, and other subjects. His most recent books are Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union and Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel.
Budiansky's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times magazine and op-ed pages, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Economist, and many other publications. He is a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, the scholarly journal of cryptology and intelligence history, and is on the American Heritage Dictionary's Usage Panel. He lives on a small farm in Loudoun County, Virginia."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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