#twitterstorians! Got a bibliography question. What are the top 5 books on the organization of science during WWII--basically, books on the NRDC/OSRD. Obviously the bios of V. Bush, but I need 5 most important books on the subject. @ColdWarScience in particular might know
Probably obvious but Stewart's "Organizing Scientific Research for War" is really useful for basic-but-details organizational info. https://archive.org/details/organizingscient00stew …
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- also Larry Owens https://www.jstor.org/stable/3117197?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …. Guerlac’s 2 volume radar history is also essential on that corner of the effort. -
Another one in the official history genre is Baxter’s Scientists Against Time, published just after the war
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Ooooh, if we're doing "official" histories, I have a soft spot for Goudsmit's ALSOS. He reads the German bomb project as a manual for how science shouldn't be done in the US.
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More should be written about bad Nazi R&D policy. In his war diary, British Branch of the Rad Lab director John Trump (Donald's uncle!) talks about how badly coordinated the German radar effort was after he interviewed their people in April '45..
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