Glide Path

Clarke, Arthur C. Glide Path. 1963. New York: Harcourt, 1986.

Mainstream work set in WWII England which "celebrates and does not fear the ability of people to forget themselves for the greater good, to become part of a machine and part of a machinelike organization"—most directly the people in radar trucks controlling Ground Controlled Descent of British bombers (quoting J. Hollow, Against the Night 130, q.v. under Literary Criticism).