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Spies in the Congo - The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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Spies in the Congo - The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most
tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's
desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic
bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most
important deposit of uranium yet discovered anywhere on earth,
vital to the success of the Manhattan Project. Given that Germany
was also working on an atomic bomb, it was an urgent priority for
the US to prevent uranium from the Congo being diverted to the
enemy - a task entrusted to Washington's elite secret intelligence
agents. Sent undercover to colonial Africa to track the ore and to
hunt Nazi collaborators, their assignment was made even tougher by
the complex political reality and by tensions with Belgian and
British officials. A gripping spy-thriller, Spies in the Congo is
the true story of unsung heroism, of the handful of good men -- and
one woman -- in Africa who were determined to deny Hitler his bomb.
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