12 seconds of silence : how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
623.4542/HOLMES,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 623.4542/HOLMES,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020
DESCRIPTION

xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781328460127, 1328460126 :, 1328460126, 9781328460127
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Part I: Peace -- Zing-a-Zing! -- Emergency Mode -- Scientific Spies -- The Wizard -- Section Tuve -- Choice Overload -- Uncanny Days -- Peenemünde -- Don't Slow Down -- Prying Eyes -- Escalation -- Part II: War -- Ready or Not -- No Alibis -- Dr. Jones's Raid -- The Garage -- Three Runs, Three Hits -- Into the Fleet -- New Tricks -- Cherry Stone -- A London Fuse -- AMNIARIX -- Part III: Victory -- Ski Shapes -- Ranch Country -- Chemical Boys -- Things Carried -- Wachtel is Hiding -- A Comet Gone Wrong -- "Turkey Shoot" -- Ack Ack Girls -- A Cold Winter -- Tug of War -- Downtime

"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."--

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