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Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb - Softcover

Williams, Susan

 
9781849049528: Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1849049521 ISBN 13: 9781849049528
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered anywhere on earth, vital to the success of the Manhattan Project. Given that Germany was also working on an atomic bomb, it was an urgent priority for the US to prevent uranium from the Congo being diverted to the enemy - a task entrusted to Washington's elite secret intelligence agents. Sent undercover to colonial Africa to track the ore and to hunt Nazi collaborators, their assignment was made even tougher by the complex political reality and by tensions with Belgian and British officials. A gripping spy-thriller, Spies in the Congo is the true story of unsung heroism, of the handful of good men -- and one woman -- in Africa who were determined to deny Hitler his bomb.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Susan Williams is a senior research fellow in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her pathbreaking books include Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, which in 2015 triggered a new, ongoing UN investigation into the death of the UN Secretary-General; Spies in the Congo, which spotlights the link between US espionage in the Congo and the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945; Colour Bar, the story of Botswana’s founding president, which was made into the major 2016 film A United Kingdom; and The People’s King, which presents an original perspective on the abdication of Edward VIII and his marriage to Wallis Simpson.

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Verlag
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1849049521
ISBN 13 
9781849049528
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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