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# Building Radar: Forging Britain's Early-warning Chain,1939-45 Hardcover – 25 Mar. 2010

**Brand:** colin dobinson
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- **What is this?** Building Radar: Forging Britain's Early-warning Chain,1939-45 Hardcover – 25 Mar. 2010 by colin dobinson
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Building Radar: Forging Britain's Early-warning Chain, 1939-45
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 August 2012*

This is a most remarkable book covering a highly complex subject, while at the same time remaining easy to read and to digest. The author has covered all of the major developments that occured during WWII,and most systems used by the RAF and the Army, with excellent historical context. The illustrations, particularly the drawings are out-standing and set a very high standard for anyone wishing to expand on this subject. Given the diversity of types of systems developed during the war this book doesn't quite cover everything, but it has a darned good stab at it.

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    boring
  

*by H***U on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 March 2018*

Rather disappointing account of the building of the chain home and related radar sites. The book concentrates mainly on the actual sites themselves, the land, the wrangles with  planning permission and residents objections, the committees and civil servants, ministers and experts. There's loads of statistics, details of upgrades, that sort of thing, but nothing much at all about the actual equipment or development of the technology. The two main contractors for uk radar in ww2, Metropolitan Vickers, who made the transmitters, and Cossor, who made the receivers, get mentioned only once in the whole book. Marconi and GEC also get mentioned maybe once each. No mention of how it worked, who built what exactly, how the equipment was operated or who was responsible for what. The word 'happidrome' is written once, without explanation of what one was or where the name came from. Most of the diagrams are line drawings, there are very few photos, and if I saw one map of the UK I must've seen 20! All in all a very vague account, most of which I'd already gleaned from Wikipedia and the radarpages.com. Very little incentive to pick it up and finish it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2018*

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