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

Author: Jacobsen, Annie.

Edition Statement:First edition.

Imprint:New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.

Descriptionxii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

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?.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-560) and index.



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