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Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program to bring Nazi scientists to America

By Jacobsen , Annie

Book information

Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Year
2014
ISBN
9780316221054, 0316221058, 9780316251693, 0316251690
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (5955958 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1939-1945--Technology;World War II;Intelligence seGerman Americans--History--20th century;Jewish;Mil

Description

Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.;The war and the weapons -- Destruction -- The hunters and the hunted -- Liberation -- The captured and their interrogators -- Harnessing the chariot of destruction -- Hitler's doctors -- Black, white and gray -- Hitler's chemists -- Hired or hanged -- The ticking clock -- Total war of apocalyptic proportions -- Science at any price -- Strange judgment -- Chemical menace -- Headless monster -- Hall of mirrors -- Downfall -- Truth serum -- In the dark shadows -- Limelight -- Legacy -- What lasts?

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