Description
| Product ID: | 9781529374889 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Bastard Brigade |
| Subtitle: | The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb |
| Authors: | Author: Sam Kean |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | True stories of discovery, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, True war and combat stories, Second World War, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Nuclear weapons, True war & combat stories, Second World War, Fascism & Nazism, Nuclear weapons, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating New York Times bestselling 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 - 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Hodder Paperback |
| Publisher Name: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-07-23 |
