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Secret Warriors: The Scientists, Spies, and Code Breakers of World War I.
By Downing, Taylor
- ISBN
- 9781605986944 9781605987507
- Publisher
- Pegasus
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Reviewed on February 15, 2015 | Social Sciences
Downing (Churchill's War Lab; Spies in the Sky) discusses the role of scientific advancement in the unfolding of World War I and divides his narrative into five sections: aviators such as John Moore-Brabazon, code breakers such as Alexander Denniston; engineers and chemists such as Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel; doctors and surgeons such as Harold Gillies, who later pioneered sexual reassignment surgery; and propagandists su...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
