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GUY HARTCUP, The Effect of Science on the Second World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xvii + 214. ISBN 1-4039-0643-2. £17.99 (paperback).
DOI: 10.1017/S0007087404485811
Guy Hartcup, who has served as a soldier and as a historian within the civil service, has been writing books on the relations of science and war in the twentieth century for forty years, starting with an official (and anonymous) history of operational research in the wartime Air Ministry published in 1963. He has written books on science and engineering in the First...