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Spies in the Congo : America's atomic mission in World War II / Susan Williams.
Van Pelt Library D810.S7 W4796 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, A. Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Office of Strategic Services.
- United States.
- Uranium mines and mining--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--20th century.
- Uranium mines and mining.
- World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Equipment and supplies.
- Atomic bomb--United States--History.
- Atomic bomb.
- History.
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--1908-1960.
- Congo (Democratic Republic).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 369 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2016]
- Summary:
- "In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb-and to make sure nobody saw them doing it,"--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Letter from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt, 2 August 1939
- The Manhattan Project and Shinkolobwe
- TETON
- CRISP
- CRUMB
- Chief of Station, Congo
- 'Attention! Bloc radioactif!'
- ANGELLA
- 'Born secret'
- The mission
- The British opposites
- FLARE
- The cutout
- LOCUST
- 'Hotbed of spies'
- Framed
- Collaborating with the Nazis
- A dead shot
- Stehli the detective
- 'One minute to midnight'
- Hiroshima
- Atomic spies
- The missing link.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-327), filmography (page 329), and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781610396547
- 1610396545
- OCLC:
- 929917558
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