Author: GOUDSMIT, SAMUEL A.
Title: Alsos
Description: New York: Henry Schuman, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. [iv], v-xiv, 3-259 pages. Index of principal names. Black and white illustrations and reproductions of documents. Endpapers feature facsimiles of fascinating pertinent news clippings of the day. The author, a professor of physics at Northwestern University, was scientific head of the Alsos Mission. "Appointed by the War Department at the request of Major General L.R. Groves, U.S. Army chief of the atom bomb project, it was the duty of this Mission to follow immediately in the wake of our armies in the innvasion of Europe, for the purpose of determining precisely how much the Germans knew about the atom bomb and how far they had progressed in its construction. In other words, Alsos was a scientific intelligence Mission, and since the atom bomb was TOP top secret and pretty much a mystery even to the high military echelons, our work was of necessity shrouded in secrecy. Now the story can be told." - Foreword. Dust jacket not included. Unmarked. Binding intact. Slight lean to spine. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's pale blue cloth. A sound copy of this fascinating and little-known history. Enser p.394.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; ALSOS, German Scientists - WWII, Nuclear Research - Germany, Nazi Scientists, Atom Bomb, Nuclear Research - WWII, Alsos Mission, German Physics, Operation Humbug, Major General L.R. Groves,. Fair .

Keywords: Science & Technology