Night of the Physicists - Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizscker and the German Bomb

Operation Epsilon Heisenberg Hahn Weizsacker and the German Bomb.

About the author

Richard von Schirach is the author The Shadow of My Father (2005) a memoir of growing up as the son of Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Nazi youth movement. A respected sinologist, von Schirach's translation of Pu Yi's autobiography was adapted for cinema as The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1987.

Summary

Interned in a remote country house by MI6 after the war, the German physicists who worked to make a Nazi atomic bomb were secretly recorded. This book shows just how close they came and their disbelief as the Allies attack Hiroshima.

Product details

• Authors: Richard von Schirach, Richard Von Schirach & Simon Pare, Richard von Schirach, von Schirach Richard
• Assisted by: Simon Pare (Translation), Pare Simon (Translation)
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781908323859
• ISBN: 978-1-908323-85-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Military / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Nuclear physics, Nuclear weapons, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General