TY  - BOOK
AU  - BUDIANSKY Stephen
TI  - Blackett's war: the men who defeated the nazi uboats and brought science to the art of warfare 
SN  - 9780307743633 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books, 
KW  - WORLD WAR, 1939-1945
KW  - RADAR
KW  - NAVAL OPERATIONS
KW  - SUBMARINE
KW  - ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 20TH CENTURY
KW  - ATLANTIC OCEAN
N1  - Includes biographical references (p. [281]-291) and index
N2  - In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet called upon 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
ER  -