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Radar and the Raft: A True Story About a Scientific Marvel, the Lives It Saved, and the World It Changed

Jeff Lantos

Illustrator: Alan Marks

Ages: 12+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Charlesbridge

ISBN: 978-1-62354-345-7

Keywords: History-WWII, Axis powers, Allies, U-boats, magnetism, electricity, Nikola Tesla, Luigi Galvani, Michael Faraday

Thanks to brilliant inventions and courageous countrymen, injured and starving survivors of a cargo ship, torpedoed in shark-filled waters were rescued at the eleventh hour. Watercolor illustrations, archival photos. Index, sources.