Sir Robert Watson-Watt: 'Three Steps to Victory: A Personal ...

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£40

Sir Robert Watson-Watt: 'Three Steps to Victory: A Personal Account by Radar's Greatest Pioneer', London, Odhams Press, Ltd., 1957, 1st edition, frontispiece + 49 illustrations from photographs, diagrams, maps etc. as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (30s net price intact). Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892–1973) was a Scottish pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology. His contribution in developing a practical radar aircraft detection system provided the vital advance information that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain. In his English History 1914–1945, the historian A. J. P. Taylor paid the highest of praise to Watson-Watt, Sir Henry Tizard and their associates who developed radar, crediting them with being fundamental to victory in the Second World War.