TY - SOUND AU - Kean,Sam AU - Sullivan,Ben TI - The Bastard Brigade: the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb SN - 9781549181115 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Hachette Audio KW - Manhattan Project (U.S.) KW - History KW - United States KW - War Department KW - Alsos Mission KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Military intelligence KW - Atomic bomb KW - Germany KW - 20th century KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft N1 - Title from container; Compact discs; Includes a PDF of supplemental material; Read by Ben Sullivan N2 - New York Times best selling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely in history have scientific secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the midst of planning the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services created a secret offshoot, the Alsos Mission, which was meant to gather intelligence on and sabotage if necessary, scientific research by the Axis powers. What resulted was a plot worthy of the finest thriller, full of spies, sabotage, and murder. At its heart was the 'Lightning A' team, a group of intrepid soldiers, scientists, and spies, and even a famed baseball player, who were given almost free rein to get themselves embedded within the German scientific community to stop the most terrifying threat of the war: Hitler acquiring an atomic bomb of his very own ER -