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

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780316221047 (hbk.)
ISBN: 031622104X (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780316239820 (lg. print : hbk.)
ISBN: 0316239828 (lg. print : hbk.)
Physical Description: print
xii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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?

Find similar items by subject

Subject:

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

Currently available copies

13 out of 18 copies are currently available at PINES. (Show)
2 out of 2 copies are currently available at Flint River Regional Library System. (Show)
1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Peachtree City Library.