Operation paperclip - Brossura

Jacobsen, Annie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0316277444 ISBN 13: 9780316277440

Casa editrice: Time Warner, 2013

Riassunto

In the chaos following WWII, many of Germany's remaining resources were divvied up among allied forces. Some of the greatest spoils were the Third Reich's scientific minds--the minds that made their programs in aerospace and rocketry the best in the world. The United States secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis' forbidden knowledge outweighed their crimes, and the government formed a covert organization called Operation Paperclip to allow them to work without the knowledge of the American public. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, with access to German archival documents (including, notably, papers available only to direct descendants of the former Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and lost dossiers she recently discovered at the National Archives, Annie Jacobsen will follow more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the 20th century.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain. She was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Time Warner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0316277444
• ISBN 13: 9780316277440
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 592
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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