LA GUERRE DES SCIENTIFIQUES

A global explanatory approach, based on the scientific and technological innovations of the Second World War. While most of these are already famous, their origins remain largely unknown.

This book is an unprecedented in-depth exploration of one of the hidden facets of the Second World War: that of the academics, researchers and teachers who were involved, often clandestinely, in the cataclysm. Together they formed a genuine army of civilians lurking in the shadows, weighing decisively on the outcome of the conflict. Thanks to the author's clear and learned presentation, we discover the secrets of radar, penicillin, the atomic bomb, Enigma decoding and many other decisive advances we owe to important personalities, most of them unjustly forgotten.

JEAN-CHARLES FOUCRIER holds a doctorate in contemporary history from Paris-Sorbonne University. A specialist of the Second World War, he is a reservist in the French Air Force in charge of historical studies at CERPA at the Ecole Militaire de Paris. He has also written La Stratégie de la destruction. Bombardement alliés en France, 1944 (The Strategy of Destruction. Allied bombing in France, 1944, at Vendémière Editions).