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Operation Paperclip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America / Annie Jacobsen.

Publication | Library Call Number: D810.S2 J43 2014

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.

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Variant Title
Operation Paper Clip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America
Format
Book
Author/Creator
Jacobsen, Annie.
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014
Locale
Germany
United States
Language
English
Edition
First edition

About This Publication

Physical Description
xii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 25 cm
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?
ISBN
9780316221047
031622104X
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-560) and index.
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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