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Author Jacobsen, Annie, author.

Title Operation Paperclip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America / Annie Jacobsen.

Publication Info. New York : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  940.548 JACOBSEN    Check Shelf
Edition First Back Bay paperback edition.
Description xiv, 581, 10 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Includes reading group guide (10 pages at end).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [543]-566) and index.
Contents 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?
Subject Military research -- History -- 20th century.
Scientists -- Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Technology.
Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Scientists -- Recruiting -- Germany -- 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.
German Americans -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780316221030 (pbk.)
0316221031 (pbk.)
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