Operation Paperclip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America / Annie Jacobsen.
2014
D810.S2 J33 2014 (Mapit)
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Operation Paperclip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America / Annie Jacobsen.
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Edition
First edition.
ISBN
031622104X hardcover
9780316221047 hardcover
9780316277440 paperback
0316277444 paperback
0316239828 large print
9780316239820 large print
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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Table of Contents
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?
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?