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Operation Big - The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb (Hardcover, UK ed.)
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Operation Big - The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb (Hardcover, UK ed.)
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'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 role, housing ten of
Germany's top nuclear physicists captured in daring raids. Amid the
chaos of the disintegrating Third Reich they were flown to England
covertly in a mission code-named Operation Big. Every word they
uttered was bugged by MI6 eavesdroppers using the wires found by
the professor. After the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, these
men would claim they could have developed A-bombs for the Third
Reich, but did not 'for the greater good of mankind'. Most believe
this to have been a lie. But was there an even greater deception?
Were they captured not to stop Hitler, but to stop Stalin? Did the
US drop the Bomb as a show of power not to the Japanese, but to the
Soviets? Colin Brown guides us through a world of espionage,
scientific discovery and questions of morality as he reveals the
extraordinary truth surrounding Hitler's atomic bomb.
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