{"product_id":"barnes-wallis-9781474623421","title":"Barnes Wallis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Morris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: George Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicholson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: George Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicholson\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"George Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicholson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45146219479191,"sku":"9781474623421","price":2298.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781474623421.webp?v=1767656170","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/barnes-wallis-9781474623421","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}