The Battle for Radio: Marconi's Story

Review also includes:

Adventures with Electricity: Benjamin Franklin’s Story, ill. Robin Bell Corfield, 978-1842481257

The Fight against Microbes: Pasteur’s Story, ill. Christian Birmingham, 978-1842481226

The Search for Radium: Marie Curie’s Story, ill. Christian Birmingham, 978-1842481202

Reissued after nine years, this paperback series focuses on major breakthroughs in science by key players – Marconi, Pasteur, Curie and Benjamin Franklin. Lovely atmospheric illustrations by Robin Bell Corfield (shame on you publisher for misspelling his name on two spines) and Christian Birmingham make the books look attractive. However it will be a dedicated reader who keeps up the momentum to read through these books that have no chapter heads, no captions, no page numbers and no index. You would have to be motivated too to want choose a dramatised version of the story without any hard facts, dates, or references apart from a single page of historical notes. Too soft focus for my liking.