Kean, Sam
Bastard Brigade the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb / The Bastard Brigade Sam Kean - Unabridged. - New York, N.Y. Hachette Audio 2019 - 12 audio discs (approximately 14 1/2 hr.) CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM -
Title from container. Compact discs. Includes a PDF of supplemental material.
New York Times best selling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely in history have scientific secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the midst of planning the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services created a secret offshoot, the Alsos Mission, which was meant to gather intelligence on and sabotage if necessary, scientific research by the Axis powers. What resulted was a plot worthy of the finest thriller, full of spies, sabotage, and murder. At its heart was the 'Lightning A' team, a group of intrepid soldiers, scientists, and spies, and even a famed baseball player, who were given almost free rein to get themselves embedded within the German scientific community to stop the most terrifying threat of the war: Hitler acquiring an atomic bomb of his very own.
9781549181115 1549181114
9781549181115
ZEd0j6 Blackstone Publishing
Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History.
United States. War Department. Alsos Mission --History.
World War (1939-1945)
1900-1999
World War--Military intelligence--United States.--1939-1945
Atomic bomb--History--Germany--20th century.
Germany.
QC773.3.U5 / K43 2019ab
355.825119094309044 Bas 34
Bastard Brigade the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb / The Bastard Brigade Sam Kean - Unabridged. - New York, N.Y. Hachette Audio 2019 - 12 audio discs (approximately 14 1/2 hr.) CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM -
Title from container. Compact discs. Includes a PDF of supplemental material.
New York Times best selling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely in history have scientific secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the midst of planning the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services created a secret offshoot, the Alsos Mission, which was meant to gather intelligence on and sabotage if necessary, scientific research by the Axis powers. What resulted was a plot worthy of the finest thriller, full of spies, sabotage, and murder. At its heart was the 'Lightning A' team, a group of intrepid soldiers, scientists, and spies, and even a famed baseball player, who were given almost free rein to get themselves embedded within the German scientific community to stop the most terrifying threat of the war: Hitler acquiring an atomic bomb of his very own.
9781549181115 1549181114
9781549181115
ZEd0j6 Blackstone Publishing
Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History.
United States. War Department. Alsos Mission --History.
World War (1939-1945)
1900-1999
World War--Military intelligence--United States.--1939-1945
Atomic bomb--History--Germany--20th century.
Germany.
QC773.3.U5 / K43 2019ab
355.825119094309044 Bas 34