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A carregar... Spies In The Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War IIpor Taylor Downing
  
Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   cy-27 | Jul 13, 2022 |  This details an unsung part of the intelligence gathering of WW2, the collection of aerial photography. The book covers the use of cameras in planes in WW1 and follows through to the buildup to the war in 1939, and into the war. The pilots of these aircraft flew high, fast and unarmed and were some of the bravest pilots in the airforce. The assessment side of the operation was streets ahead of the Americans as well, but by the end of the war they had 'borrowed' most of the techniques for their own use. Well worth a read. (  ) PDCRead | Apr 6, 2020 |
 This book by Taylor Downing, a television producer and author of Churchill's War Lab, claims that "the photo interpreters working at Medmenham invented nothing less than a completely new science". According to Downing, their work was "more important to the outcome of the war than that of the Bletchley Park codebreakers". Most bullishly of all, we are told that "80% of all intelligence in world war II came from aerial photography". This factoid perhaps deserves a medal from the Ministry of Made-up Statistics. On page 335 of his book, Downing admits that the oft-repeated claim is in fact extrapolated from one American's statement specifically about the supply route from Burma to China.
SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of the photo interpreters who invented a completely new science to analyse those pictures. They were inventive and ingenious; they pioneered the development of 3D photography and their work provided vital intelligence throughout the war. With a whole host of colourful characters at its heart, from the legendary pilot Adrian 'Warby' Warburton, who went missing while on a mission, to photo interpreters Glyn Daniel, later a famous television personality, and Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah, SPIES IN THE SKY is compelling reading and the first full account of the story of aerial photography and the intelligence gleaned from it in nearly fifty years. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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