Churchill's Boffin--Frederick Lindemann.(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: Wedd, George | Copyright information

Prof: The Life of Frederick Lindemann. Adrian Fort. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]18.99. viii + 374 pages. ISBN 0-224-06317.

Frederick Lindemann, Churchill's friend and adviser for over thirty years, was a truly remarkable man. He came from an old family in the Palatinate who had become wealthy in the nineteenth century by engineering, and which had roots in both France and Germany. His father, however, settled in England and Frederick was brought up in Devonshire. Spe...

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