A very well-written history of the small group of British genius inventors and scientists who developed a vast toolkit of sabotage devices for use by the SOE, OSS, and ultimately the allied military forces.
It also reveals some of the most successful special operations using these weapons, including the Norsk heavy water Hydro plant raid, the "harass and delay" campaign that kept the Das Reich SS divisions from reaching Normandy in time during the Allied invasion, and the use of a new weapon late in the war for hunting submarines that far exceeded the effectiveness of conventional depth charges. One of several very good histories by Giles Milton. Recommended.
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