Author: R. V. Jones
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN: 9781635610796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
R.V. Jones' personal account of his key role in what Churchill called "The Wizard War" with British Scientific Intelligence from 1939 to 1945. Projects he worked on sought to combat Germany's applications of science during World War II, including navigational beams, chaff, and radar. Their efforts helped the Allies achieve ultimate victory.
The Wizard War
Author: R. V. Jones
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN: 9781635610796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
R.V. Jones' personal account of his key role in what Churchill called "The Wizard War" with British Scientific Intelligence from 1939 to 1945. Projects he worked on sought to combat Germany's applications of science during World War II, including navigational beams, chaff, and radar. Their efforts helped the Allies achieve ultimate victory.
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN: 9781635610796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
R.V. Jones' personal account of his key role in what Churchill called "The Wizard War" with British Scientific Intelligence from 1939 to 1945. Projects he worked on sought to combat Germany's applications of science during World War II, including navigational beams, chaff, and radar. Their efforts helped the Allies achieve ultimate victory.
Most Secret War
Author: R.V. Jones
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141957670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Reginald 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.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141957670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Reginald 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.
The War of the Wizards
Author: Carol Gaskin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816703180
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The reader, as apprentice to the wizard Caladrius, becomes involved in a war of the wizards, during the course of which the reader's choices determine the development of the plot.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816703180
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The reader, as apprentice to the wizard Caladrius, becomes involved in a war of the wizards, during the course of which the reader's choices determine the development of the plot.
The Wizard and the War Machine
Author: Lawrence Watt-Evans
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473214270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
At the end of The Cyborg and the Sorcerers, Sam Turner was making a life for himself on the planet Dest. He thought he had left the long-lost interstellar war between Earth and its rebellious colonies behind him forever. "Forever" turned out to be eleven years. That was how long it took for another Independent Reconaissance Unit to respond to the distress call his ship had sent before it was destroyed. And this one made his own berserk killer computer look sane.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473214270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
At the end of The Cyborg and the Sorcerers, Sam Turner was making a life for himself on the planet Dest. He thought he had left the long-lost interstellar war between Earth and its rebellious colonies behind him forever. "Forever" turned out to be eleven years. That was how long it took for another Independent Reconaissance Unit to respond to the distress call his ship had sent before it was destroyed. And this one made his own berserk killer computer look sane.
Wizards at War
Author: Diane Duane
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152052232
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Nita and Kit rejoin forces when a strange darkness of the mind overcomes the older wizards, stealing away their power, and forcing the younger wizards to go to war to save the world.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152052232
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Nita and Kit rejoin forces when a strange darkness of the mind overcomes the older wizards, stealing away their power, and forcing the younger wizards to go to war to save the world.
Wizard War
Author: Hugh Cook
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780445207004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780445207004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Demon in Mirror
Author: Andrew J. Offutt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671835095
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In order to find the whereabouts of her missing brother, Tiana must seek out the dismembered and scattered pieces of the immortal and pretty damn evil sorcerer Lamarred ...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671835095
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In order to find the whereabouts of her missing brother, Tiana must seek out the dismembered and scattered pieces of the immortal and pretty damn evil sorcerer Lamarred ...
The Wizards
Author: Stephen Wyllie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780670858033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Fantasy story featuring the rivalry of two wizards.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780670858033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Fantasy story featuring the rivalry of two wizards.
The Wizards War
Author: Selena McGrady
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463439512
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
When young Titas awakens to find a stranger wandering into his home his world is turned into something akin to the grand stories his mother tells. Within days Titas finds himself battling for his life but he and his family are not the only ones in danger. Far to the northwest an army encampment is ambushed. In the desperate struggle that ensues the fates of three soldiers and Titas are entwined in a great war for survival and freedom.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463439512
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
When young Titas awakens to find a stranger wandering into his home his world is turned into something akin to the grand stories his mother tells. Within days Titas finds himself battling for his life but he and his family are not the only ones in danger. Far to the northwest an army encampment is ambushed. In the desperate struggle that ensues the fates of three soldiers and Titas are entwined in a great war for survival and freedom.
The Great Wizard Wars
Author: Christina Clarry
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178589725X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This is a tale of the wars between good and evil armies of wizards and witches. Breaking a centuries’ old truce, a Dark Army rises again with the intent of destroying their old enemy.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178589725X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This is a tale of the wars between good and evil armies of wizards and witches. Breaking a centuries’ old truce, a Dark Army rises again with the intent of destroying their old enemy.