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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bookplate. Dust jacket is protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects: Child soldiers Great Britain History. Boys as soldiers Great Britain History. Commonwealth countries History, Military. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A vivid first-hand account of Britainâs secret struggle to master radar technology during the Second World War, this memoir offers an insiderâs view of the scientists, engineers, and strategists who helped turn the tide of the conflict. Blending technical insight with personal reflection, the author recounts the breakthroughs, setbacks, and intense pressures behind one of the warâs most decisive innovations. Fascinating, human, and historically important, itâs an essential read for anyone interested in wartime science, intelligence, and innovation.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xii, [2], 224 pages. Maps, Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling and is taped to the boards. Some marginal pencil marks noted. Jack Nissen (1918-1997) was a technician who worked on radar developments and installations during World War II. Recounted in his memoir, Winning the Radar War, Jack Nissen was part of a secret reconnaissance assignment during the Dieppe Raid. The Canadian South Saskatchewan Regiment escorted Nissen in his quest to find out more about the German Freya radar installed at Pourville, near Dieppe. His job was to find out if Germany possessed precision radar technology. However, because of his valuable knowledge of the British radar, the South Saskatchewan Regiment was under orders to shoot and kill the radar specialist should the task be intercepted by the Germans and the raiding party be in danger of capture; under no circumstances could the British afford to let Nissen be taken alive. With numerous close calls during the raid, which was eventually successful, Nissen escaped capture and returned to England. His action in cutting the land lines and forcing the Freya operators to resort to radio transmissions, which the British radio listeners were able to monitor, confirmed that the German Freya radar was indeed a precision installation. Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, an emitting antenna, a receiving antenna (separate or the same as the previous one) to capture any returns from objects in the path of the emitted signal, a receiver and processor to determine properties of the object(s). Radar was secretly developed by several nations in the period before and during World War II. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging. The term radar has since entered English and other languages as a common noun, losing all capitalization. Full radar evolved as a pulsed system, and the first such elementary apparatus was demonstrated in December 1934 by the American Robert M. Page, working at the Naval Research Laboratory. The following year, the United States Army successfully tested a primitive surface-to-surface radar to aim coastal battery search lights at night. This was followed by a pulsed system demonstrated in May 1935 by Rudolf Kühnhold and the firm GEMA in Germany and then one in June 1935 by an Air Ministry team led by Robert A. Watson-Watt in Great Britain. Development of radar greatly expanded on 1 September 1936 when Watson-Watt became Superintendent of a new establishment under the British Air Ministry, Bawdsey Research Station located in Bawdsey Manor, near Felixstowe, Suffolk. Work there resulted in the design and installation of aircraft detection and tracking stations called "Chain Home" along the East and South coasts of England in time for the outbreak of World War II in 1939. This system provided the vital advance information that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain. An earlier report about aircraft causing radio interference led to the Daventry Experiment of 26 February 1935, using a powerful BBC shortwave transmitter as the source and their GPO receiver set up in a field while a bomber flew around the site. When returns were clearly seen, funds were immediately provided for development of an operational system. Given all required funding and development support, the team had working radar systems in 1935 and began deployment. By 1936 the first five Chain Home (CH) systems were operational and by 1940 stretched across the entire UK including Northern Ireland. Even by standards of the era, CH was crude; instead of broadcasting and receiving from an aimed antenna, CH broadcast a signal floodlighting the.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Canadian Edition. 224 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with a section of black and white plates in the center of the book. Bound in blue hardcovers with silver titles on the spine. Blue illustrated dustjacket in near fine condition with red and black titles. 1ST CANADIAN EDITION. NPC. NF/NF. Book.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1975. First edition. xi, 223pp., and a map on the front and rear endpapers. This is a biography of Sir Percy Joseph Sillitoe (1888-1962), a British police and intelligence officer. He was chief constable of several police forces, and changed the role of radios, civilian staff, and women police officers within the police. He was later Director General of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1946 to 1953. The book is bound in the original brown boards with gold titling on the spine. It is in very good condition with bumping to the spine ends and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The dustwrapper is very good with some shelf wear and bumping to the spine ends. The front flap has not been price clipped but the printed price has been crossed-out with red ink.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. xx, 21-238pp. Pictorial light card covers, French flaps. 8vo. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Memoir of the 2WW radar war by an technical participant. He survived the Dieppe Raid. pp.xvi. 224. Illus. DW in archival sleeve.

Robert Hale, London 1989. xvi, 241 pp. Hardcover with d/w. Owner signature. Fine condition.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Features: Munich As An Art Center; An Old Southern School - an early American convent in Georgetown; A Persian's Praise of Persian Ladies; The Great Railway Systems of the United States - The South Atlantic Railways; Liberal Tendencies in Europe; Some Phases of Contemporary Journalism; Mr. Taswell Langdon in Seville; As to Certain Accepted Heroes; To Dante (poem); New Mexican Folk Songs; The Discontinuance of the Guide Board; Social Strugglers; The Human Eye as Affected by Civilization. 8 [ads], iv, 642-768, 9-60 [ads] pp. Above-average wear to covers which are detached but present. Textblock intact and unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; Illustrations; Sm 4to. Illustrated by Attwood, F.G.; Goater, W.H. Johnson, Charles Howard;Wenzel, A.B.; Mowbray, H.S. (illustrator). …