Operation Big : the race to stop Hitler's atomic bomb /
Brown, Colin, 1950-
Operation Big : the race to stop Hitler's atomic bomb / Colin Brown. - 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
EUROPEAN HISTORY. 'We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the bomb for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.' R.V. Jones, head of wartime British scientific intelligence A professor of architecture at Cambridge University, Marcial Echenique, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. The mansion had an astonishing past as an MI6 and M1I9 staging post for some of the most daring secret operations of WWII. But in April, 1945, Farm Hall was to play an even more astounding role, as a 'country club' for ten of Germany's top nuclear physicists after they had been captured in Germany and secretly flown back to England in a daring raid codenamed Operation Big. Every word they uttered was bugged by MI6 eavesdroppers using the wires found by the Professor.
9781445682853 1445682850
Farm Hall (Cambridgeshire, England)--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.
Espionage, British--History--20th century.
Atomic bomb--History--Germany--20th century.
Operation Big : the race to stop Hitler's atomic bomb / Colin Brown. - 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
EUROPEAN HISTORY. 'We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the bomb for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.' R.V. Jones, head of wartime British scientific intelligence A professor of architecture at Cambridge University, Marcial Echenique, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. The mansion had an astonishing past as an MI6 and M1I9 staging post for some of the most daring secret operations of WWII. But in April, 1945, Farm Hall was to play an even more astounding role, as a 'country club' for ten of Germany's top nuclear physicists after they had been captured in Germany and secretly flown back to England in a daring raid codenamed Operation Big. Every word they uttered was bugged by MI6 eavesdroppers using the wires found by the Professor.
9781445682853 1445682850
Farm Hall (Cambridgeshire, England)--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.
Espionage, British--History--20th century.
Atomic bomb--History--Germany--20th century.