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Winston Churchill´s Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research)
Colonel Stuart Macrae
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Description for Winston Churchill´s Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research)
Paperback. The story of Churchill's personal weapons development department, staffed by ingenious boffins, who developed numerous innovative weapons that helped win the war. Num Pages: 208 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWKF; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 208. The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research). 208 pages, 29 illustrations. The story of Churchill's personal weapons development department, staffed by ingenious boffins, who developed numerous innovative weapons that helped win the war. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWKF; JWM. Dimension: 200 x 129 x 12. Weight: 208.
The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries, Department M.D.1. earned from its detractors the soubriquet 'Winston Churchill's Toyshop', yet from a tiny underground workshop housed in the cellars of the London offices of Radio Normandie in Portland Place, and subsequently from the 'stockbroker Tudor' of a millionaire's country mansion in Buckinghamshire, came an astonishing array of secret weapons ranging from ... Read more
The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries, Department M.D.1. earned from its detractors the soubriquet 'Winston Churchill's Toyshop', yet from a tiny underground workshop housed in the cellars of the London offices of Radio Normandie in Portland Place, and subsequently from the 'stockbroker Tudor' of a millionaire's country mansion in Buckinghamshire, came an astonishing array of secret weapons ranging from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445608426
SKU
V9781445608426
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About Colonel Stuart Macrae
Colonel Stuart Macrae was an engineering boffin who was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time at the start of the Second World War. As the editor of the magazine Armchair Science, he was phoned up by the War Dept and asked to join its ranks as a developer of weapons. This he took to ... Read more
Reviews for Winston Churchill´s Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research)
A hilarious book and certain to amuse even those whose interest in weapons of war is minimal'
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
A small piece of secret history'
THE YORKSHIRE POST
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
A small piece of secret history'
THE YORKSHIRE POST