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Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler´s A-Bomb
Colin Brown
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Description for Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler´s A-Bomb
Paperback. The Cambridgeshire country house at the centre of a secret mission to stop Hitler's A-Bomb Num Pages: 304 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
`We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the Bomb, for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.' R. V. Jones, head of wartime British Scientific Intelligence Marcial Echenique, a Cambridge professor, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall. The manor had an astonishing past as an MI6 staging post for some of the most secret operations of the Second World War. But in April 1945, Farm Hall was to play an even more astounding ... Read more
`We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the Bomb, for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.' R. V. Jones, head of wartime British Scientific Intelligence Marcial Echenique, a Cambridge professor, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall. The manor had an astonishing past as an MI6 staging post for some of the most secret operations of the Second World War. But in April 1945, Farm Hall was to play an even more astounding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445664675
SKU
V9781445664675
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-37
About Colin Brown
Colin Brown is the former Deputy Political Editor of the Independent and Political Editor of the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent on Sunday. He worked for thirty years as a lobby journalist at Westminster and is the author of five books, including Whitehall: The Street That Shaped a Nation (Simon and Schuster).
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`It sounds like the plot of a bestselling thriller ... but every word is true ... extraordinary'
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