Secret Warriors
- Author Taylor Downing
- Narrator Sean Barrett
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 13 hours and 24 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre First World War.
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What to expect
The First World War is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this a scientific war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, physicists, doctors, mathematicians and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to make a positive and lasting contribution to how war was conducted on land, at sea and in the air, and most importantly life at home.
Secret Warriors provides an invaluable and fresh history of the First World War, profiling a number of the key figures who made great leaps in science for the benefit of 20th Century Britain. Told in a lively, narrative style, Secret Warriors reveals the unknown side of the war.
Secret Warriors provides an invaluable and fresh history of the First World War, profiling a number of the key figures who made great leaps in science for the benefit of 20th Century Britain. Told in a lively, narrative style, Secret Warriors reveals the unknown side of the war.
Critics Review
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Exactly what you want from a history of the boffins and technological pioneers of the First World War. There are bluff military adventurers and clumsy gentleman scientists
The Times -
[A] fascinating new take on the Great War
Daily Express -
Secret Warriors is a compelling insight into the role intellectuals can play in the business of war
History of War magazine -
Unique and timely, interesting and useful
Military History -
[A] fascinating study
New Statesman -
Lucid and entertaining . . . Secret Warriors is full of interesting characters . . . The straightforward story Downing tells is a refreshing change from older treatments of science and war
Nature
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