STEPHEN PHELPS is a writer, producer, and broadcaster. After fifteen years in television investigative journalism for the BBC and Channel 4, he turned to writing and now specializes in history and radio drama. He lives in London and Italy.
"One of this book's many attractions is its emphasis on the
importance of interrelationships among social, political, and
technical worlds in bringing ideas to reality."--The Wall Street
Journal"Erudite, literate, and thoroughly absorbing."--Booklist
"They carried the most valuable cargo ever brought to our
shores."--James Phinney Baxter III, Office of Scientific Research
and Development"The first cavity magnetron is displayed in the
Science Museum as one of the most important technological objects
of the twentieth century. As Stephen Phelps reveals in this much
needed book, the United Kingdom's decision to share its secrets
with the United States was a key turning point in the Second World
War."--John Liffen, Curator, Science Museum, London
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