The True History of the Strange Brigade
Author : Cassandra Khaw
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Heroes
ISBN : 1786181185
Author : Cassandra Khaw
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Heroes
ISBN : 1786181185
Author : Great Britain. War Office
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1900
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
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Author : James MacGeoghegan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368879251
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Author : Sam Kean
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0316381667
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research. Hitler, with just a few pounds of uranium, would have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. So they assembled a rough and motley crew of geniuses -- dubbed the Alsos Mission -- and sent them careening into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club. The details of the mission rival the finest spy thriller, but what makes this story sing is the incredible cast of characters -- both heroes and rogues alike -- including: Moe Bergm, the major league catcher who abandoned the game for a career as a multilingual international spy; the strangest fellow to ever play professional baseball. Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist credited as the discoverer of quantum mechanics; a key contributor to the Nazi's atomic bomb project and the primary target of the Alsos mission. Colonel Boris Pash, a high school science teacher and veteran of the Russian Revolution who fled the Soviet Union with a deep disdain for Communists and who later led the Alsos mission. Joe Kennedy Jr., the charismatic, thrill-seeking older brother of JFK whose need for adventure led him to volunteer for the most dangerous missions the Navy had to offer. Samuel Goudsmit, a washed-up physics prodigy who spent his life hunting Nazi scientists -- and his parents, who had been swept into a concentration camp -- across the globe. Irène and Frederic Joliot-Curie, a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who used their unassuming status as scientists to become active members of the resistance. Thrust into the dark world of international espionage, these scientists and soldiers played a vital and largely untold role in turning back one of the darkest tides in human history.
Author : John Jennings
Publisher : Boston : Little Brown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Canada
ISBN :
This fast-moving, action-packed novel is about a doughty band of Scottish pioneers who braved a perilous ocean voyage to find a new homeland in what is now the province of Manitoba.
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 1905
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 1905
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : abbé Mac-Geoghegan (James)
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1832
Category :
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Publisher :
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1861
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Page : 948 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Art
ISBN :