Author(s): Millar, George

Second World War

312 pages

One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that they knew exactly how the enemy system worked. This was thanks to a daring commando raid on a German Wurzburg radar site at Bruneval in northern France. Ostensibly, the British had attacked and destroyed the whole station, but in reality key components had been stolen and the whole set analysed.