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Author Holmes, Jamie, author.

Title 12 seconds of silence : how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon / Jamie Holmes.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
©2020

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  623.4 HOLMES    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  623.4 HOLMES, JAMIE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  623.4 HOLMES    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  623.4 HOL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  623.4542 HOLMES    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  623.4542 HOLMES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  623.4 HOL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  623.4 HOL    DUE 04-27-24
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  623.4 HOLMES    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  623.4542 HOL    Check Shelf

Description xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Peace -- Zing-a-Zing! -- Emergency Mode -- Scientific Spies -- The Wizard -- Section Tuve -- Choice Overload -- Uncanny Days -- Peenemünde -- Don't Slow Down -- Prying Eyes -- Escalation -- Part II: War -- Ready or Not -- No Alibis -- Dr. Jones's Raid -- The Garage -- Three Runs, Three Hits -- Into the Fleet -- New Tricks -- Cherry Stone -- A London Fuse -- AMNIARIX -- Part III: Victory -- Ski Shapes -- Ranch Country -- Chemical Boys -- Things Carried -- Wachtel is Hiding -- A Comet Gone Wrong -- "Turkey Shoot" -- Ack Ack Girls -- A Cold Winter -- Tug of War -- Downtime.
Summary "The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Proximity fuzes -- Design and construction.
World War, 1939-1945.
Military weapons -- History.
Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development -- History.
Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory -- History.
SCIENCE / Research & Methodology.
Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory. (OCoLC)fst00538214
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. (OCoLC)fst00550617
Military weapons. (OCoLC)fst01021577
Weapons industry. (OCoLC)fst01173026
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Twelve seconds of silence
Other Form: Online version: Holmes, Jamie, 12 seconds of silence Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 9781328459855 (DLC) 2019045691
ISBN 9781328460127 hardcover
1328460126 hardcover
9781328459855 electronic book
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