Battle of the Beams

Battle of the Beams tells of how during WW11, the British were convinced that radar was their exclusive advantage in winning the war. They also assumed their pilots, benefiting from a strong maritime heritage, did not require navigational aids, and that the Germans, lacking such a tradition, would be unable to locate targets at night. Both assumptions proved incorrect. The Germans had developed radio beam technology to guide their aircraft into enemy territory. Fortunately, a young engineer successfully persuaded Churchill and a skeptical audience of the significant threat posed by this innovation.

• Author: Whipple, Tom
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin