Research Catalog

Title

Spies in the Congo : the race for the ore that built the atomic bomb / Susan Williams.

Author

Williams, A. Susan

Publication

• London : Hurst & Company, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xxiv, 369 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomband to make sure nobody saw them doing it,"--Amazon.com.

Subjects

• Uranium mines and mining
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Atomic bomb
• World War > (1939-1945)
• History
• 1900-1999
• Equipment and supplies
• World War (1939-1945)
• United States > Office of Strategic Services
• Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > 1908-1960
• Atomic bomb > United States > History
• World War, 1939-1945 > Equipment and supplies
• Uranium mines and mining > Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327), filmography (page 329), and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Letter from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt, 2 August 1939 -- The Manhattan Project and Shinkolobwe -- TETON -- CRISP -- CRUMB -- Chief of Station, Congo -- 'Attention! Bloc radioactif!' -- ANGELLA -- 'Born secret' -- The mission -- The British opposites -- FLARE -- The cutout -- LOCUST -- 'Hotbed of spies' -- Framed -- Collaborating with the Nazis -- A dead shot -- Stehli the detective -- 'One minute to midnight' -- Hiroshima -- Atomic spies -- The missing link.

ISBN

• 9781610396547
• 1610396545
• 9781610396554 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781849046381 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016936154

OCLC

• 962172953
• SCSB-12065338

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library