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Illustration Credits
1 Holland: U.S. Navy
2 Propaganda poster: Library of Congress
3 Officer boards German submarine: IWM
4 Lindemann: IWM
5 Blackett: Lotte Meitner-Graf, courtesy AIP
6 Tizard: IWM
7 Williams: Courtesy The Royal Society; Gordon: Courtesy Clare Gordon
8 Zuckerman: Zuckerman Archive, University of East Anglia
9 HMCS Sackville: Canadian Navy Heritage Project
10 Convoy: Library of Congress
11 Pilot of a Sunderland: IWM
12 Bush: Courtesy MIT Museum
13 Baker: Naval History and Heritage Command
14 Morse and Shockley: AIP
15 Slessor: IWM
16 Cartoon: NARA
17 Electromechanical bombe: U.S. Navy
18 U-118: U.S. Navy
19 U-boats under construction: IWM
A Note About the Author
Stephen Budiansky is a journalist and military historian. His previous books include Air
Power, Battle of Wits, The Bloody Shirt, Her Majesty’s Spymaster, and Perilous Fight.
Perilous Fight is also available as an eBook: 978-0-307-59518-8
For more information, please visit www.aaknopf.com
The Irish-born inventor John P. Holland in one of his early submarines (Illustration Credit 1)
An American propaganda poster from the First World War highlights the U-boat threat (Illustration Credit 2)
A British officer boards a German submarine as it arrives in Harwich to surrender, November 1918 (Illustration Credit 3)
The “Prof,” Frederick A. Lindemann (left), with Winston Churchill (Illustration Credit 4)
Patrick Blackett (Illustration Credit 5)
Sir Henry Tizard, who headed the British scientific air defense committee and repeatedly clashed with Lindemann over science and war policy (Illustration Credit 6)
E. J. Williams and Cecil Gordon, who along with Blackett probably contributed the most to operational research against the U-boats (Illustration Credit 7)
The zoologist Solly Zuckerman, at Tobruk in 1943: his Tots and Quots club and their book, Science in War, were instrumental in mobilizing scientific manpower for the war. (Illustration Credit 8)
HMCS Sackville, one of the “cheap and nasty” flower-class escort corvettes (Illustration Credit 9)
A convoy of merchant ships crosses the Atlantic, 1942 (Illustration Credit 10)
A pilot of a Sunderland flying boat scans the sea on a U-boat patrol over the Atlantic (Illustration Credit 11)
Vannevar Bush, the MIT engineer who galvanized American defense research, in a characteristic pose (Illustration Credit 12)
U.S. Navy captain Wilder D. Baker, who brought American scientists into the anti-U-boat fight (shown here in 1944 receiving the Navy Cross) (Illustration Credit 13)
MIT’s Philip Morse, the physicist who directed ASWORG, and his deputy William Shockley of Bell Labs (Illustration Credit 14)
Air Marshal John Slessor, who clashed with Blackett over RAF bombing policy (Illustration Credit 15)
A cartoon adorning the back cover of an ASWORG report (Illustration Credit 16)
Punch card used by Coastal Command ORS to analyze attacks on U-boats: these cards stored considerably more information than those used by IBM machines, but had to be sorted by hand (using knitting needles) to select cards with specified criteria.
One of the U.S. Navy’s electromechanical “bombes” used to recover the daily settings of the U-boat Enigma codes (Illustration Credit 17)
U-118 under depth charge and machine gun attack by aircraft from the U.S. escort carrier Bogue, June 12, 1943 (Illustration Credit 18)
U-boats under construction in Hamburg at the war’s end (Illustration Credit 19)
Also by Stephen Budiansky
History
Perilous Fight
The Bloody Shirt
Her Majesty’s Spymaster
Air Power
Battle of Wits
Natural History
The Character of Cats
The Truth About Dogs
The Nature of Horses
If a Lion Could Talk
Nature’s Keepers
The Covenant of the Wild
Fiction
Murder, by the Book
For Children
The World According to Horses
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