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Format:

Book

Author:

Jacobsen, Annie.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.

Description:

xii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 25 cm

Summary:

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.

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Technology.

Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Scientists -- Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Scientists -- Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Physicians -- Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Nazis -- History -- 20th century.

War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Military research -- History -- 20th century.

German Americans -- History -- 20th century.

Other Title:

Operation Paper Clip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America

Secret intelligence program to bring Nazi scientists to America

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-560) and index.

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?

LCCN:

2013028255

ISBN:

9780316221047

031622104X

Other Number:

827257574

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

399763

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

940.54 Jacobsen