A first hand account of the development of wartime radar which could cope with German night bombers.
Reg Batt was a radar scientist at Worth Matravers.

'Taffy' Bowen was one of the original radar scientists and the team leader on airborne radar from its inception.

RDF (Radio Direction Finding) was the 'cover' name given to radar before World War II. This book is based on detailed archival research of the work of people involved in early radar development. Before his retirement Bragg commissioned radars for the Civil Aviation Authority.

This book is an account of the history of Radar in the Second World War.

Original subtitle: 'How a small group of radar pioneers won the Second World War and launched a technological revolution'.  Recalls the group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II contributed to the Allied victory, and chronicles their post-war achievements.

A highly readable 'storybook' account of radar development, treating the subject by imaginative reconstructions of scenes and conversations of key individuals.

Hanbury Brown was one of the younger members of Bowen's team and also held a pilot's licence. Focuses strongly on Airborne Interception and Air to Surface Vessel radar and on Operations Research.  Hanbury-Brown was a scientist at Worth Matravers.

Book from a 1970s BBC series featuring scientific advances of World War II from radar to codebreaking.

Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949. It was his responsibility to anticipate German applications of science to warfare, so that their new weapons could be countered before they were used. Much of his work had to do with radio navigation, as in the Battle of the Beams, with radar, as in the Allied Bomber Offensive and in the preparations for D-Day and in the war at sea.

Tells the story of UK radar development approachably and accurately from published works of the pioneers, interviews and reminiscences of those still alive.

Continues the style of 'Pioneers of Radar' into the war years from interviews with those who worked on radar in the UK 1939 - 1945, mixing technical and social history.

Excellent publication of the memoirs of 'Skip' Wilkins, Watson Watt's assistant in the earliest days of radar with helpful notes.

An autobiographical account of the author's work on the development of radar systems during World War II. The book focuses on his contributions to the development of a "blind" bombing device known as H2S and its conversion to assist Coastal Command in the detection of enemy submarines.  Bernard Lovell was a scientist at Worth Matravers.

This booklet tells the story of early radar development in the UK from the Daventry experiment in 1935 to after the D-Day invasion. It focuses on the period from May 1940 - May 1942 when radar development was centred at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) in Purbeck, Dorset.

Short general history of radar in the closing phases of World War II.

This non-technical booklet features many photographs of the people and radar sites, biographic notes of the top scientists and outlines the lasting legacy of technology.  Dr Bill Penley was a radar scientist at Worth Matravers.

Covers the evolution of anti-submarine aircraft to detect and attack U-boats from 1912 - 1945

Charts the rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them.

A study of the technological advances of German radar before and during World War II including Hulsmeyer's original experimentations in 1904.

A general account of early radar from Rowe's own perspective as Superintendent of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), the main UK research centre.

Long winded with a heavy focus in the earlier years, and written very much from Watson-Watt's own perspective.

Originally a 20th anniversary tribute and the book upon which the film "Battle of Britain" was based. The book was outstandingly well-researched for its period. It includes a description of the overall air defence system, and two chapters on radar. It concentrates on the day battle, and a chronological treatment of the Battle of Britain itself, with little on the Blitz.

Generally well researched and well written, this book follows Zimmerman's earlier work on Tizard. It deals with the development of the entire British radar-based air defence system, not solely with radar hardware. Indispensable on Chain Home, not so thorough in the single chapter on airborne radar.