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Laboratory Warriors: How Allied Science and Technology Tipped the Balance in World War II

Door Tom Shachtman

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#374174-XA46
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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