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Secret warriors : the spies, scientists, and code breakers of World War I / Taylor Downing.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First hardcover editionDescription: viii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1605986941
  • 9781605986944
Other title:
  • Spies, scientists, and code breakers of World War I
Subject(s):
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.
Summary: World War I 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 an intellectual war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, code-breakers, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to make a positive and lasting contribution to how war was conducted on land, at sea, and in the air, and most importantly, life at home.
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World War I 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 an intellectual war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, code-breakers, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to make a positive and lasting contribution to how war was conducted on land, at sea, and in the air, and most importantly, life at home.Secret Warriors provides an invaluable and fresh history of the World War I, profiling a number of the key incidents and figures which lead to great leaps forward for the twentieth Century. Told in a lively and colorful narrative style, Secret Warriors reveals the unknown side of this tragic conflict.

Published by Little, Brown, c2014 with subtitle: Key scientists, code breakers and propagandists of the Great War.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

World War I 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 an intellectual war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, code-breakers, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to make a positive and lasting contribution to how war was conducted on land, at sea, and in the air, and most importantly, life at home.

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