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The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States.Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. space program. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century.In this definitive, controversial look at one of America's most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security.

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9780316221047 | Little Brown & Co, February 11, 2014, cover price $30.00
9780316239820 | Large print edition (Little Brown & Co, February 11, 2014), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51In the chaos following World War II, the U.

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9780316221030 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, January 20, 2015), cover price $18.00

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9781619691537 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, February 11, 2014), cover price $35.00
9781478981916 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 11, 2014), cover price $74.99

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9781594161162 | Westholme Pub Llc, December 20, 2010, cover price $28.00

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9781594161636 | Reprint edition (Westholme Pub Llc, May 1, 2012), cover price $15.95

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9780199832675 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 2011, cover price $38.95
9780713999181, titled "Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War" | Gardners Books, March 31, 2011, cover price $41.45

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Product Description: One-of-a-kind retelling of the Normandy campaign Places the 1944 battle for France in its social, economic, scientific, and technological context GI Ingenuity is in large part an old-fashioned combat narrative, with mayhem and mass slaughter at center stage...read more

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9780811734684 | Stackpole Books, December 15, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: One-of-a-kind retelling of the Normandy campaign Places the 1944 battle for France in its social, economic, scientific, and technological context GI Ingenuity is in large part an old-fashioned combat narrative, with mayhem and mass slaughter at center stage.

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Product Description: Explores the development of the V-2 rocket A sobering testimony to the consequences of corrupted genius Wernher von Braun is known to many as the brilliant pioneer of rocketry who left Germany after World War II to lead the United States' space program...read more

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9780275952174 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 1995, cover price $39.00

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9780811733878 | Stackpole Books, March 10, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Explores the development of the V-2 rocket A sobering testimony to the consequences of corrupted genius Wernher von Braun is known to many as the brilliant pioneer of rocketry who left Germany after World War II to lead the United States' space program.

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Product Description: Orginally a TV tie-in expanded from the BBC televison series, the book covers the behind-the-scenes aspects of the fight by the 'back room' scientists and technicians of WW2, including the battles against the Luftwaffe navigational beams, the V-1 and V-2 flying bombs, the development of radar, the battle against the u-boats, countering the magnetic mine, and the breaking of the codes produced by the Enigma machines...read more

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9781844151028 | Pen & Sword, October 1, 2004, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Orginally a TV tie-in expanded from the BBC televison series, the book covers the behind-the-scenes aspects of the fight by the 'back room' scientists and technicians of WW2, including the battles against the Luftwaffe navigational beams, the V-1 and V-2 flying bombs, the development of radar, the battle against the u-boats, countering the magnetic mine, and the breaking of the codes produced by the Enigma machines.

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Product Description: The latest advances in science were fully exploited in World War II. They included radar, sonar, improved radio, methods of reducing disease, primitive computers, the new science of operational research and, finally, the atomic bomb, necessarily developed like all wartime technology in a remarkably short time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780333670613 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Although scientists were involved on a limited scale in the First World War, advances made in science and technology between the wars made them indispensable from 1939 to 1945.
9780312228330 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 5, 2000, cover price $137.00 | About this edition: This fascinating account of how science was used by both the victors and the vanquished in the Second World War makes use of newly available material from the Public Record Office.

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9781403906434 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 4, 2003, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The latest advances in science were fully exploited in World War II.

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Cites the role played by scientists and technologists in the Second World War, identifying crucial breakthroughs that were made by both sides in a secret laboratory war that resulted in significant weapons and technological developments. Originally published as Terrors and Marvels. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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9780380816231 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 2003), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Cites the role played by scientists and technologists in the Second World War, identifying crucial breakthroughs that were made by both sides in a secret laboratory war that resulted in significant weapons and technological developments.

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Describes the new military technology used during World War II on land, at sea, and in the air.

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9780739860649 | Heinemann/Raintree, January 1, 2003, cover price $34.29 | About this edition: Describes the new military technology used during World War II on land, at sea, and in the air.

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Cites the role played by scientists and technologists in the Second World War, identifying crucial breakthroughs that were made by both sides in a secret laboratory war that resulted in significant weapons and technological developments. By the author of The Phony War: 1939-1940. (view table of contents)

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9780380978762 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, June 1, 2002), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Cites the role played by scientists and technologists in the Second World War, identifying crucial breakthroughs that were made by both sides in a secret laboratory war that resulted in significant weapons and technological developments.

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A close-up look at Nazi attempts to build an atomic bomb describes the German bomb program, the Allied response to it, and the roles of some of the twentieth-century's leading physicists

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9780394514116 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1993, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A close-up look at Nazi attempts to build an atomic bomb describes the German bomb program, the Allied response to it, and the roles of some of the twentieth-century's leading physicists

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9780306810114 | Da Capo Pr, August 10, 2000, cover price $27.50
9780316716239 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A close-up look at Nazi attempts to build an atomic bomb describes the German bomb program, the Allied response to it, and the roles of some of the twentieth century's leading physicists

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Product Description: Maj Gorman examines the problems encountered by XX and XXI Bomber Commands in employing the B-29 against Japan, initially from India and China, later from the Marianas. The technologically advanced bomber was expected to be the technological solution to attacking Japan across long distances...read more

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9781585660759 | Air Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Maj Gorman examines the problems encountered by XX and XXI Bomber Commands in employing the B-29 against Japan, initially from India and China, later from the Marianas.

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Product Description: This text provides an account of the secret aerospace technology which was developed in Nazi Germany and had the potential to drastically affect the outcome of World War II.

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9780747259640 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This text provides an account of the secret aerospace technology which was developed in Nazi Germany and had the potential to drastically affect the outcome of World War II.

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9780809485918 | Reprint edition (Time Life Education, November 1, 1991), cover price $19.93

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9781853266997 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd, August 1, 1998, cover price $10.99

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Chronicles a desperate 1941 mission to destroy a vital hydroelectric plant to prevent Hitler from making atomic bombs, citing the cost of the mission and considering what might have happened if it had failed. 10,000 first printing.

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9780805032062 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Chronicles the desperate 1941 mission to destroy a vital hydroelectric plant to prevent Hitler from making atomic bombs, citing the cost of the mission and considering what might have happened if it had failed

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Product Description: As a student in Cambridge, Alan Hodgkin first became interested in the basis of nerve conduction, using single nerve fibers from a shore crab in his experiments. In 1963, he won the Nobel prize for his work on nerve conduction, and in 1970 became President of the Royal Society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521400992 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $167.99 | About this edition: As a student in Cambridge, Alan Hodgkin first became interested in the basis of nerve conduction, using single nerve fibers from a shore crab in his experiments.

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9780521456036 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: As a student in Cambridge, Alan Hodgkin first became interested in the basis of nerve conduction, using single nerve fibers from a shore crab in his experiments.

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Product Description: This book tells in non-technical language how the British Navy contributed to the development of naval radar in World War 2. Addressed to the general reader, it tells not only the technical story in simple terms, but also of the operational use of shipborne radar at sea - for warning, for fire control, for fighter direction, for navigation, in all theatres of war - and particularly about the people who designed and fitted the equipment, and those who used it at sea...read more

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9781557507044 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This book tells in non-technical language how the British Navy contributed to the development of naval radar in World War 2.

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Charges that the U.S. government put Nazi scientists to work in America after World War II

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9780312055103 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Charges that the U.

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Offers an account of the postwar competition between the World War II allies, particularly the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., to exploit the scientific achievements of the Third Reich by seizing Nazi scientists

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9780316103992 | Little Brown & Co, December 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offers an account of the postwar competition between the World War II allies, particularly the U.

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