Title: Secret warriors : key scientists, code breakers and propagandists of the Great War /
Authors: Downing, Taylor
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company,
Year: 2014
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Propaganda; World War, 1914-1918 Cryptography; World War, 1914-1918 Science.; Warfare and defence.
Abstract: The First World War 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 a scientific war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, and intelligence gatherers.
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.