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12 seconds of silence : how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
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Published 2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
ISBN 9781328460127
Bib Id 2389683
Copyright 2020
Description xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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2019-045690
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9781328460127 (hardcover) $28.00
1328460126
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623.4542 H
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12 seconds of silence : how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
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Twelve seconds of silence
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2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston :
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©2020
Description
xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Peace -- Zing-a-Zing! -- Emergency Mode -- Scientific Spies -- The Wizard -- Section Tuve -- Choice Overload -- Uncanny Days -- Peenemünde -- Don't Slow Down -- Prying Eyes -- Escalation -- Part II: War -- Ready or Not -- No Alibis -- Dr. Jones's Raid -- The Garage -- Three Runs, Three Hits -- Into the Fleet -- New Tricks -- Cherry Stone -- A London Fuse -- AMNIARIX -- Part III: Victory -- Ski Shapes -- Ranch Country -- Chemical Boys -- Things Carried -- Wachtel is Hiding -- A Comet Gone Wrong -- "Turkey Shoot" -- Ack Ack Girls -- A Cold Winter -- Tug of War -- Downtime.
Summary
"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."--
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