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Drawing on first hand narratives and material from Oxford University and college archives, this pioneering account reveals the essential role Oxford played in producing military intelligence, creating propaganda, and developing radar and the atomic bomb. It also explore's the city's role in bringing penicillin to market and laying the foundations of the welfare state.
The author Ashley Jackson is Professor of Imperial and Military History at KIng's College London and a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College Oxford.
