TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Damien
TI  - Hunting Hitler's nukes: the secret race to stop the Nazi bomb 
SN  - 9781786482075 (hbk.) :
AV  - U264.5 
U1  - 355.0217 LEW 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Quercus
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Special Operations Executive
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - Warfare and Defence
KW  - ukslc
N2  - In the Spring of 1940, as Britain reeled from defeats on all fronts and America seemed frozen in isolation, one fear united the British and American leaders like no other: the Nazis had stolen a march on the Allies towards building the atomic bomb. So began the hunt for Hitler's nuclear weapons - nothing else came close in terms of priorities. This book intercuts the hunt for the scientists, the raw materials and the plant, with the cloak and dagger intelligence game being played in the shadows. This relied in part on ENIGMA intercepts to guide the SOE's hand. Lewis delves into some of the most extraordinarily inventive and Machiavellian innovations at the SOE, and their related research and training schools, whereby the enemy were tricked, deceived, framed, blackmailed and double and triple-crossed, all in the name of stopping the Reich from getting the bomb
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