Most Secret War
by R V Jones
The First World War was the chemists’ war and WWII was the physicists’ war. Jones was a scientist in Oxford doing his PhD and was interested in looking at infra red, which became very important for night bombing missions. This book is his memoir and is about the role played by scientific intelligence in WWII.
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