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The Bastard Brigade : the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb / Sam Kean.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781549181115
- ISBN: 1549181114
- Physical Description: 12 audio discs (approximately 14 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Hachette Audio, [2019]
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| General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. Includes a PDF of supplemental material. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Ben Sullivan. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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The Bastard Brigade : The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Sam Kean is the author of The Disappearing Spoon, The Violinist's Thumb, and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery all of which were national bestsellers. The Disappearing Spoon was nominated by the Royal Society for one of the top science books of 2010, while The Violinist's Thumb was a finalist for PEN's literary science writing award. Kean's stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Psychology Today, and The New Scientist, among other places, and his work has been featured on "Radiolab" and NPR's "All Things Considered," among other shows. (Bowker Author Biography)
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