The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II
This erudite, literate, and thoroughly absorbing piece of WWII history tells of the British decision to make a free gift of much advanced technology to the U.S. Led by Sir Henry Tizard, a group of top British scientists crossed the Atlantic to meet with their American counterparts, whom FDR had already mobilized as a new and top-secret brain trust. They brought information on nuclear fission, on jet propulsion, and, most important, on technology for vastly improved radar (the key to that, the cavity magnetron, now adorns most kitchens in the land as the microwave oven). The British attached no strings to any of their gifts, which vastly aided the postwar American economic boom; the Americans greeted their British colleagues with very close to open arms. A long-overdue resurrection of Tizard and his colleagues. --Roland Green