Trinity : the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history / Frank Close.
Trinity : the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history / Frank Close.
Trinity : the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history / Frank Close.
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Publisher
[London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
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G 2020/2224
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 500 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Prologue: Oxford 1967 -- Escaping Hitler -- Tube alloys: 1941-3 -- Manhattan transfers: 1944-6 -- From Trinity to the Soviet atomic bomb: 1945-9 -- The haunting: 1949-50 -- Endgame: 1950 -- Fallout: 1950-59.
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Publisher
[London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
A thrilling new history of the most damaging nuclear spy ever to undermine the West, by an important scientific practitioner. Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain. He was taken onto the Manhattan Project in the USA as a trusted physicist - and was the conduit by which knowle...
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Trinity : the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history / Frank Close.
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Treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version : 9780241309896
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©2019
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G 2020/2224
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74VKaPVbObOg
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ISBN
0241309832 (hardcover)
9780241309834 (hardcover)
DDC
327.12092
MMS ID
991024312517102626
