THE BASTARD BRIGADE: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
by Kean, Sam
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316381683
- ISBN 13
- 9780316381680
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About This Item
New York & Boston:: Little Brown,, (2019). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The story of a group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining a nuclear bomb - among those who played roles in this story were Moe Berg, a major league catcher who abandoned the game for a career as a multilingual international spy - one of the strangest fellows to ever play professional baseball; Werner Heisenberg the Nobel Prize-winning physicist credited as the discoverer of quantum mechanics; Joe Kennedy Jr. older brother of JFK whose need for adventure led him to volunteer for the most dangerous missions the Navy had to offer; and Irne and Frederic Joliot-Curie, a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who used their status as scientists to become active members of the resistance. Illustrated with photographs. List of major characters, sources, index.xii, 447 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86233
- Title
- THE BASTARD BRIGADE: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- Author
- Kean, Sam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316381683
- ISBN 13
- 9780316381680
- Publisher
- Little Brown,
- Place of Publication
- New York & Boston:
- Date Published
- (2019)
- Keywords
- world war ii, moe berg, atomic bomb,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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