A Washington Post Notable Book
In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, systematic implementation of simple mathematics and probability theory. This is the story of how British and American civilian intellectuals helped change the nature of twentieth-century warfare, by convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the new field of operational research.
- ISBN10 030759596X
- ISBN13 9780307595966
- Publish Date 19 February 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Knopf Publishing Group
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 306
- Language English