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Operation Big : the Race to Stop Hitler's Atomic Bomb /

Title: Operation Big : the Race to Stop Hitler's Atomic Bomb / Colin Brown.
Author: Brown, Colin, 1950-
Publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2016.

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287 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

EUROPEAN HISTORY. 'We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the Bomb, for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.' R.V. Jones, head of wartime British Scientific Intelligence Marcial Echenique, a Cambridge professor, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall. The manor had an astonishing past as an MI6 staging post for some of the most secret operations of the Second World War. But in April 1945, Farm Hall was to play an even more astounding role, housing ten of Germany's top nuclear physicists captured in daring raids. Amid the chaos of the disintegrating Third Reich they were flown to England covertly in a mission code-named Operation Big. Every word they uttered was bugged by MI6 eavesdroppers using the wires found by the professor.

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History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282).

ISBN

9781445651842
144565184X
9781445664675
1445664674
9781445682853
1445682850
9781445651859 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016449059

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Princeton University Library