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Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. Presumed later printing. xiv, 369, [1] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. Illustrated front cover. Robert Jungk (born Robert Baum, also known as Robert Baum-Jungk; 11 May 1913 - 14 July 1994) was an Austrian writer, journalist, historian and peace campaigner who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. Jungk was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. His father, known as Max Jungk, was born David Baum (1872, Miskovice - 1937, Prague). When Adolf Hitler came to power, Jungk was arrested and released, moved to Paris, then back to Nazi Germany to work in a subversive press service. These activities forced him to move through various cities, such as Prague, Paris, and Zurich, during World War II. He continued journalism after the war. His book, Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, was the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project, and its first Danish edition included a passage which implied that the German project had been purposely dissuaded from developing a weapon by Werner Heisenberg and his associates (a claim strongly contested by Niels Bohr), and led to a series of questions over a 1941 meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was later the basis for Michael Frayn's 1998 play, Copenhagen. In 1986, he received the Right Livelihood Award for "struggling indefatigably on behalf of peace, sane alternatives for the future and ecological awareness. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, by Austrian Robert Jungk, is the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project. The book studied the making and dropping of the atomic bomb from the viewpoints of the atomic scientists. The book is largely based on personal interviews with persons who played leading parts in the construction and deployment of the bombs. In 1956 the book was published in German by Alfred Scherz Verlag with the title Heller als tausend Sonnen. James Cleugh translated it into English, and it was published in 1958 by Harcourt, Brace and Company. The book's title is based on the verse from the Bhagavad Gita that J. Robert Oppenheimer is said to have recalled at the Trinity nuclear test.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Reprint. The dust-jacket is shelf worn with creasing, closed tears, marks, and light browning. The boards are edge rubbed. The binding is secure. The pages are browned due to age. There are no ink inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. Extra postage may be required. r*22/01/2026 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

Zustand: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 320 pp. Ink scribble inside the rear cover and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOCIAL & HUMANITIES.

Mass market paperback. Zustand: Fair. 237, [3] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Name in ink inside front cover. Edges of several pages repaired with tape. Some page discoloration. Introduction by Willy Ley. Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (6 September 1895 - 26 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre. Dornberger was born in Gießen in 1895. In 1914 he enlisted in the German army during World War 1. In October 1918, as an artillery lieutenant, Dornberger was captured by United States Marines and spent two years in a French prisoner of war camp. In the late 1920s, Dornberger completed an engineering course with distinction at the Berlin Technical Institute, and in the Spring of 1930, Dornberger graduated with an MS degree in mechanical engineering from the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. In 1930, Dornberger was appointed to the Ballistics Council of the German Army Weapons Department as Assistant Examiner to secretly develop a military liquid-fuel rocket suitable for mass-production that would surpass the range of artillery. Dornberger took over his last military command on 1 October 1934, a powder-rocket training battery at Königsbrück. In May 1937, Dornberger and his ninety-man organization were transferred from Kummersdorf to Peenemünde. Dornberger was released and brought to the United States under the auspices of Operation Paperclip and worked for the United States Air Force for three years, developing guided missiles. The V-2, with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A-4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German cities. The V-2 rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line (edge of space) with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944. Research of military use of long-range rockets began when the graduate studies of Wernher von Braun were noticed by the Wehrmacht. A series of prototypes culminated in the A-4, which went to war as the V-2. Beginning in September 1944, more than 3,000 V-2s were launched by the Wehrmacht against Allied targets, first London and later Antwerp and Liège. According to a 2011 BBC documentary, the attacks from V-2s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, and a further 12,000 forced laborers and Nazi concentration camps prisoners died as a result of their forced participation with the production of the weapons. The rockets traveled at supersonic speed, impacted without audible warning, and proved unstoppable, as no effective defense existed. Teams from the Allied forcesâ"the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Unionâ"raced to seize major German manufacturing facilities, procure the Germans' missile technology, and capture the V-2's launching sites. Von Braun and more than 100 important V-2 personnel surrendered to the Americans, and many of the original V-2 team ended up working at the Redstone Arsenal. The US also captured enough V-2 hardware to build approximately 80 of the missiles. The Soviets gained possession of the V-2 manufacturing facilities after the war, re-established V-2 production, and moved it to the Soviet Union. The German V-weapons (V-1 and V-2) cost the equivalent of about US$500 million. Given the relatively smaller size of the German economy, this represented an industrial effort equivalent to but slightly less than that of the U.S. Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb. 6,048 V-2s were built, at a cost of approximately 100,000 Reich Marks (£2,370,000 in 2011) each; 3,225 were launched. SS General Hans Kammler, who as an engineer had constructed several concentration camps including.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 276 pages. Publisher's Note. Index. With 34 Photographs. Ink notations on fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. First published in France in 1951 as Marin de Metier--Pilote de Fortune by Editions France Empire. Rear Admiral André Jubelin (28 July 1906, Toulon - 7 May 1986, Sanary-sur-mer) was a French naval aviator who served with distinction in the French navy and the Fleet Air Arm during World War II. He was a pioneer of aircraft carrier operations, and after the war commanded the French aircraft carrier Arromanches. The author's reminiscences of the Second World War and "those young men of the Royal Air Force who served with me in the skies of France and England and went smiling into battle." First U.K. Edition [stated], Presumed First Printing.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. A survey of love, licence and restriction in the Middle Ages. Contains 320 pp. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with closed tears and rubbing to the corners and edges, not price clipped, 30s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOCIAL & HUMANITIES.

Zustand: Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original silver grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. A survey of love, licence and restriction in the Middle Ages. Contains 320 pp. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 17/6. Original gold foil belly band. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOCIAL & HUMANITIES.

Softcover. Zustand: g. Second printing. Octavo. 152pp. Original decorative wrappers over green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. In this remarkable work, the famed Spanish philosopher explores the philosophical basis underlying our thinking on the important questions which are alive today, from politics to science. Creasing and chipping on wrappers. Price clipped on front flap. Wraps in overall poor to fair, binding and interior in good to good+ condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition without Jacket on green cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. Octavo, pages In Very Good minus Condition with Good Dust Jacket. Spine is dark green with white lettering. Dust jacket has shelf wear, tears along the edges and spine, and some scuffing. Boards have minor rubbing to spine. Text block has some pen and pencil writing on the first end paper. 1372966. Special Collections - Downstairs.

London, J.M.Dent, 1971, in-4°, 27,5 x 21,5 cm, xxviii + 345 pp with 41 coloured & 222 b/w ills. h.t., publisher's cloth with dustjacket. index, bibliography. Arntzen & Rainwater M78.