Top secret exchange: The Tizard mission and the scientific war

by David Zimmerman

An illustrated study of the British Tizard technical mission to North America during the Second World War, in which a group of scientists were sent by the British Government across the Atlantic to provide the US and Canada with most of Britain's technological and military secrets, including radar.

Genres: History

252 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 1996

About the author

David Zimmerman was raised in Atlanta, Georgia and attended Emerson College and the University of Alabama. He spent several years living and working in Brazil and Ethiopia. After winning the Three-Day-Novel Contest, Anvil Press published the resulting novella, Socket. His debut novel, The Sandbox, was published by Soho Press in 2010, and his newest novel, Caring is Creepy, will be released in April of 2012. He now teaches at Iowa State University.