The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
by Giles Milton · first published 2016
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If you like this then I can recommend "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill's Mavericks" by Giles Milton - it starts with British inventors creating an important new weapon (the limpet mine) from sweets, condoms and bowls from Woolworths in a shed (of course)... The boffin/craftsman side…
on “Packard Merlin: How Detroit Mass-Produced Britain’s Hand-Built Powerhouse (2015)” ↗There's a really interesting narrative history book by Giles Milton called "Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" that goes quite deeply into the background of how these books, weapons, and tactics came about as the UK defended itself during WWII. It's worth a read. (https://www.gilesmilton.com/historybooks/churchillsministry)
on “US Government published guide to sabotage organizational productivity (1944)” ↗"The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill's Mavericks" by Giles Milton describes a lot of the equipment that SOE developed - e.g. the original limpet mine depending on condoms and boiled sweets and, of course, developed in someone's shed and tested at the…
on “The Thing” ↗