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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xvii, 458pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills. or black cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, toned on spine with wrinkling of laminate. Page edges foxed/spotted. Biography of Sir Henry Tizard, Scientific Advisor to the Cief of Air Staff in 1939 and personal advisor to four successive Ministers of Aircraft Production and the man who gave radar to the R.A.F. in time for the Battle of Britain; who obtained uranium ore for research into nuclear weapons in 1939; and helped drive home to politicians and Service chiefs what war now meant.