Robin D S Higham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5884633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin D S Higham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin D S |
| FAMILY NAME | Higham |
| SIGNATURE | HIGHAM R D S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sunburst
This sequel to Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 (1997), coauthored by Mark Peattie with the late David C. Evans, carries the same themes forward. It tells of the evolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy's aviation arm in its two parts, carrier- and land-based, and of the impact of the war in China from 1937, and explains how the navy's defeat came about. As in the case of the nation itself, this did…
Sidewinder
Sidewinder air-to-air missile development from 1947 to the present was, Ron Westrum believes, a stage in missile-systems development between a successful skunk-works organizational style that evolved out of World War II and complex, bureaucratic, legalistic, impersonal establishments, whether governmental or commercial, that stifle innovation and produce expensive but not necessarily effective defenses. Westrum argues most plausibly that the team…
Secret Weapon
Reviewed by: Secret Weapon: U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic * Robin Higham (bio) Secret Weapon: U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic. By Kathleen Broome Williams. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996. Pp. xix+289; illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $35. While the theme of this book is the contributions of the French engineer Henri Busignies to the dev…
Defence by Committee
British Airways Ltd, 1935–40
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British Airways Ltd, 1935–40
Defence by Committee
Secret Weapon
Reviewed by: Secret Weapon: U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic * Robin Higham (bio) Secret Weapon: U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic. By Kathleen Broome Williams. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996. Pp. xix+289; illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $35. While the theme of this book is the contributions of the French engineer Henri Busignies to the dev…
Sidewinder
Sidewinder air-to-air missile development from 1947 to the present was, Ron Westrum believes, a stage in missile-systems development between a successful skunk-works organizational style that evolved out of World War II and complex, bureaucratic, legalistic, impersonal establishments, whether governmental or commercial, that stifle innovation and produce expensive but not necessarily effective defenses. Westrum argues most plausibly that the team…
Sunburst
This sequel to Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 (1997), coauthored by Mark Peattie with the late David C. Evans, carries the same themes forward. It tells of the evolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy's aviation arm in its two parts, carrier- and land-based, and of the impact of the war in China from 1937, and explains how the navy's defeat came about. As in the case of the nation itself, this did…
Engineering (5 works) · History (5 works) · Aeronautics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · China (2 works) · Aerospace Engineering (1 works) · Aerospace Engineering (1 works)