Winning the Radar War, World War II

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Winning  the Radar War, 1987, by Jack Nissen and A. W. Cockerill,   hardcover, with dust jacket, published by Macmillan of Canada, 224 pages.

From the dust jacket -----

The Second World War was the first "technological war", and no technology was more important in winning that war than radar. The British desperately needed a tool that would warn of bombing or U-boat attacks. Here, for the first time, is the complete drama of the secret race to develop radar, told in the words of one of the key players.

In 1937, Jack Nissen, a young Cockney with a genius for electronics, was recruited by the British Air Ministry to work on the even newer development of radar technology.

This is the suspense-filled story of the experiments, the inventive breakthroughs, the electronic eaves­dropping, and the sheer good luck that sometimes determined the outcome.

Nissen, sent to operate the prototype radar installation at Bolt Head, discovered a way to use radar to guide fighter pilots directly, rather than just to detect enemy aircraft. He used his "secret" to circumvent central Bomber Command, and was caught, suspected of being a spy. But his brilliant idea was soon seen as the key needed to scramble fighters more quickly, and he was sent to build a new type of radar station on the south coast.

In 1942 Nissen volunteered for a dangerous commando mission to obtain German radar equipment at Dieppe so the British could determine how to jam it in preparation for the huge invasion being planned. Because of the invaluable knowledge he carried, he was assigned a bodyguard - South Saskatchewan Rifles - who had orders to kill him if he fell into enemy hands.

Nissen and one Canadian were the only survivors of the special group. But what he found out during that dreadful mission went a long way towards making D-Day and the eventual liberation of Europe possible.

The contents include -----

Chapter One Recruit to Secrecy

Chapter Two Pre-War British Radar

Chapter Three Pre-War German Radar

Chapter Four The Outbreak of War

Chapter Five A Scottish Testing-Ground

Chapter Six Deception and Interception

Chapter Seven Radar and the Battle of Britain

Chapter Eight The Tizard Mission to Ottawa and Washington

Chapter Nine Ghost Station

Chapter Ten Night Attacks

Chapter Eleven Navigational Radar - The Tide Turns

Chapter Twelve "Jubilee"

Chapter Thirteen Freya

Chapter Fourteen Dieppe Post-Mortem ­The Tide Builds

Chapter Fifteen D-Day

This book is in a very good condition with  edge wear to the cover  and to the upper and lower edges of the dust jacket, with a former owner's  sticker  on the third page in the book, and with no other writing or marks in the book.

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