Operation Paperclip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America / Annie Jacobsen.
Jacobsen, Annie, author.
2014
D810.S2 J33 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Operation Paperclip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America / Annie Jacobsen.
Author Jacobsen, Annie, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 031622104X hardcover
9780316221047 hardcover
9780316277440 paperback
0316277444 paperback
0316239828 large print
9780316239820 large print
Published New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Language English
Description xii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number D810.S2 J33 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.54/867308850943
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-560) and index.
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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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