{"product_id":"dam-buster-isbn-9781474623421","title":"Dam Buster","description":"Sir Barnes Wallis CBE became a household name after the hit 1954 film The Dam Busters in which Michael Redgrave portrayed a shy, slightly abstracted genius at odds with bureaucracy. Yet this was a simplified picture of a complicated, mercurial man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wallis' contribution to British aircrafts and weapons is legendary; from the R100 intercontinental airship and innovative aircrafts like the Wellesley and Wellington, to bombs that destroyed hitherto invulnerable targets, and variable-geometry aerodynes. In addition to playing a significant part in both world wars and the Cold War, his work and inventions extended to a radio-telescope, ships, bridges, prosthetic limbs, and a nuclear-powered submarine designed to travel the world's oceans in near silence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet little has been written the private Wallis; the man who fell in love with his 17-year-old distant cousin-in-law when he was 34 - and thus began a love that lasted 57 years; the man who loved the British countryside and spent every spare moment rambling. Using previously unseen letters and diaries, Barnes Wallis brings to life one of Britain's greatest inventor's: a visionary genius and private romantic; an insufferable pedant and a doting and patient son; and a self-mythologising martyr and a loyal friend.","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44895053644005,"sku":"NP9781474623421","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_2c37f16f-8419-4655-8b4b-5efefcedb3a5.jpg?v=1773101563","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dam-buster-isbn-9781474623421","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}