Schonland

Schonland: Scientist and Soldier is a biography of Sir Basil Schonland FRS (1896-1972). Schonland was a major contributor to twentieth-century British and Commonwealth science both in peace and war. This is not just a scientific biography but a biography that tells much of a highly placed scientist and administrator of the increasing engagement between science and the military and of changing military-diplomatic relationships between Britain and South Africa. The author has drawn on a profusion of primary and secondary source material from both South African and British archives to produce a fine biography that is very readable and interesting.