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18 produkter
Great Secret
The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
Häftad, 2021
187 kr
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On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 …
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Häftad, 2003
266 kr
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109 East Palace
Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
Häftad, 2006
275 kr
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In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years …
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
Häftad, 2009
285 kr
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109 East Palace
Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
Ljudbok, 2005
294 kr
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From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park , the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world''s best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War …
Great Secret
The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
Inbunden, 2020
277 kr
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On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 …
Fierce Ambition
The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
Häftad, 2024
233 kr
Kommande
Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually …
Uncompromising Woman
Katharine Dexter McCormick, Heiress, Crusader, and Patron Saint of the Pill
Inbunden, 2027
352 kr
Kommande
For over six decades, women have taken the pill more than any other prescribed medicine in the world. Yet the woman who had the foresight and means to fund the pill’s research and development, pouring millions of her fortune into the controversial invention, has largely been forgotten. An …
Irregulars
Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
E-bok, 2008
209 kr
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Following her extraordinary, bestselling, and much-acclaimed accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, here is a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intrigue in the highest circles of Washington during the tumultuous days of World War II. When Roald …
109 East Palace
Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
E-bok, 2007
213 kr
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From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park , the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world''s best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War …
Covert Affair
Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
E-bok, 2011
213 kr
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By bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were caught up in the McCarthy witch hunt and behaved with bravery and honor. Bestselling author Jennet …
Covert Affair
Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
Ljudbok, 2011
431 kr
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By bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were caught up in the McCarthy witch hunt and behaved with bravery and honor. Bestselling author Jennet …
Man of the Hour
James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
E-bok, 2017
186 kr
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“Gripping…an outstanding portrait” ( The Wall Street Journal ) of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant—a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War—told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant. James Bryant Conant was a …
Tuxedo Park
A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
E-bok, 2013
199 kr
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A New York Times bestseller! The untold story of the eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses who helped build the atomic bomb and defeat the Nazis—changing the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most …
Man of the Hour
James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
Ljudbok, 2017
593 kr
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“Gripping…an outstanding portrait” ( The Wall Street Journal ) of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant—a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War—told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant. James Bryant Conant was a …
Great Secret
The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
Häftad, 2021
134 kr
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On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey,an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 …
Fierce Ambition
The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
Inbunden, 2023
331 kr
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Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually …
