[Milsurplus] interesting Radar history web site

[Nick England]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:57 AM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:
> Is this a complete scan of R.V. Jones' book of the same name?
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> -John

Evidently not - The author says:
"This document was originally built around notes from articles
published in IEEE SPECTRUM in 1987. However, after I completed notes
from these articles, I ran into Buderi's THE INVENTION THAT CHANGED
THE WORLD and used that to flesh out the notes greatly, and the v1.0
edition of this document owed much to Buderi's book. The section on
the "Battle of the Beams" was mostly taken from an installment of the
History Channel's SECRETS OF WORLD WAR II, with the appropriate title
of THE BATTLE OF THE BEAMS.

The v1.0 version was fun to write, but the same could not be said of
the v2.0.0 version. It was a major rewrite, almost three times the
size of the original, heavily based on Brown's RADAR HISTORY OF WORLD
WAR II. This book is a gold mine of information, but written in a
style that can be only be politely described as "exasperating",
providing bits and pieces of sometimes incomplete information that had
to be sifted out and assembled. It was an exhausting effort and when I
finally came back and polished it up into the v2.0.1 version, to no
surprise I found a fair amount of fractured writing that needed
fixing.

The SPECTRUM articles covered codes and codebreaking as well, but that
turned out to be a topic unto itself, and is discussed in a separate
online document. Other online documents discuss the V-1 and German
guided munitions in detail. "

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:57 AM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:
> Is this a complete scan of R.V. Jones' book of the same name?
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> -John
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>> The Wizard War: WW2 & The Origins Of Radar
>> http://www.vectorsite.net/ttwiz.html
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