Secret weapons
Subtitle: death rays, doodlebugs and Churchill's golden goose
By: Brian J Ford
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781780967219; 9781849089111
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Weapons systems; History; World War, 1939-1945; Technology; Military research; Military weapons; Equipment and supplies; Systèmes d'armes; Histoire; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Technologie; Recherche militaire; Armes de guerre; Matériel
Description: Charts the history of secret weapons development by all the major powers during World War II, from British radar to Japanese ray-guns, and explains the vital impact that each of these often bizarre weapons eventually had on the outcome of the war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: The making of a secret war; title: Flying weapons: secret aircraft; title: Flying weapons: bombs and missiles; title: The rocket; title: Doctors at war; title: Dangerous ideas; title: Doomed to fail; title: Electronic secrets.