12 seconds of silence
how a team of inventors tinkerers and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
Book - 2020
"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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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2020.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a 12 seconds of silence : |b how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon / |c Jamie Holmes. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Twelve seconds of silence | |
| 264 | 1 | |a Boston : |b Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, |c 2020. | |
| 300 | |a xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Military weapons |x History. | |
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| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Johns Hopkins University. |b Applied Physics Laboratory |x History. |
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