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Laboratory Warriors: How Allied Science and Technology Tipped the Balance in World War II
Door Tom Shachtman
Categorie | WO II |
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Boeknummer | #372617-ZE21 |
Titel | Laboratory Warriors: How Allied Science and Technology Tipped the Balance in World War II |
Auteur | Shachtman, Tom |
Boektype | Paperback |
Uitgeverij | London : Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers |
Jaar van uitgave | 2003 |
ISBN10 | 0380816237 |
ISBN13 | 9780380816231 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Paperback, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo. |
Samenvatting | The dreadful global conflagration known as the Second World War was more than the clashing of great armies on bloody battlefields. A different kind of war was being waged in the secret laboratories on both sides of the conflict -- a war that would alter the course and determine the outcome of the bitter hostilities, forever changing our world and our future. While it is a widely accepted fact that America's development and employment of the atomic bomb ended the Pacific struggle -- and that the failure of Hitler's scientists to develop their own A-bomb helped to doom Germany -- little has been made of the other remarkable scientific accomplishments of this dark and terrible epoch. Edifying, enthralling, startling, and sobering, Laboratory Warriors is a masterful work that sheds light on th... (Lees verder)e technological achievements that swung the pendulum of victory in the Allies' direction. |
Pagina's | 360 |
Conditie | Goed — Black permanent market line on button cut (near spine). |
Prijs | € 12,50 |

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