The bastard brigade : the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb

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ISBN: 9780316381680
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xii, 447 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.

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The Bastard Brigade : The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

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The Bastard Brigade : The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Author's Note	p. xi
	Prologue: Summer of '44	p. 3
Part I	Prewar, to 1939
Chapter 1	Professor Berg	p. 13
Chapter 2	Near Misses and Big Hits	p. 23
Chapter 3	Fast and Slow	p. 38
Chapter 4	Crimea to Hollywood	p. 41
Chapter 5	Division	p. 48
Chapter 6	Spinning out of Control	p. 61
Chapter 7	Banzai Berg	p. 75
Chapter 8	On the Brink	p. 82
Part II	1940-1941
Chapter 9	The Uranium Club	p. 91
Chapter 10	Heavy Water	p. 105
Chapter 11	Phoney to Real	p. 111
Chapter 12	Mad Jack	p. 113
Chapter 13	Compromise	p. 120
Chapter 14	Harvard Highs and Lows	p. 123
Chapter 15	Maud Ray Kent	p. 126
Part III	1942
Chapter 16	Resistance	p. 131
Chapter 17	The Fire Heard 'Round the World	p. 136
Chapter 18	Off to War	p. 141
Chapter 19	Brazil and Beyond	p. 147
Chapter 20	Baja Days	p. 157
Chapter 21	V-1, V-2, V-3	p. 162
Chapter 22	Letters	p. 164
Chapter 23	Operation Freshman	p. 169
Chapter 24	The Italian Navigator	p. 180
Part IV	1943
Chapter 25	Secret Messages	p. 187
Chapter 26	Operation Gunnerside	p. 191
Chapter 27	Consolations of Philosophy	p. 207
Chapter 28	"The Fun Will Start"	p. 214
Chapter 29	Seeing Red	p. 220
Chapter 30	Beautiful PeenemÃ¼nde	p. 226
Chapter 31	PT-109	p. 234
Chapter 32	Blabbermouth	p. 238
Chapter 33	Heavy Water under Fire	p. 243
Chapter 34	Alsos	p. 250
Part V	1944
Chapter 35	Busy Lizzie	p. 257
Chapter 36	Groves's Second Assault	p. 261
Chapter 37	The Ferry	p. 264
Chapter 38	Sharks	p. 271
Chapter 39	Biscay Blues	p. 276
Chapter 40	The Fat Captain	p. 281
Chapter 41	Augers & Peppermint	p. 284
Chapter 42	Remus	p. 289
Chapter 43	Aphrodite vs. Anvil	p. 296
Chapter 44	Valkyrie	p. 304
Chapter 45	Escape and Resistance	p. 308
Chapter 46	Lightning-A	p. 312
Chapter 47	Zootsuit Black	p. 324
Chapter 48	Catching Pretty Well	p. 332
Chapter 49	"I'll Be Seeing You"	p. 335
Chapter 50	The Quisling Zoo	p. 339
Chapter 51	Healthy Rays, Healthy Teeth, Healthy Paranoia	p. 345
Chapter 52	The Deadliest Hombre	p. 351
Chapter 53	Nazi U	p. 359
Chapter 54	Uncertainty, Principles	p. 366
Part VI	1945
Chapter 55	Operation Big	p. 377
Chapter 56	The Lonely Organist	p. 386
Chapter 57	Triumph and Loss	p. 391
Chapter 58	Goimany	p. 398
Chapter 59	The Bomb Drops	p. 404
	Epilogues: 1946 and Beyond	p. 412
	A Thank-You and a Bonus	p. 421
	Acknowledgments	p. 423
	Major Characters	p. 425
	Minor Characters	p. 427
	Sources	p. 429
	Index	p. 435

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