Operation Paperclip - The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to

The bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario tells the gripping story of a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler''s scientists and their families to the United States. In the chaos following the Second World War, the US government faced a critical decision: what to do with the great scientific minds of the Third Reich. Many were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder. Nevertheless, the US government secretly decided that their knowledge of rocketry and medical advances were vital to the outcome of the Cold War. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and dossiers discovered in archives across the world, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the twentieth century. ''Chilling and riveting ... a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing'' Boston Globe ''The most in-depth account yet of the lives of Paperclip recruits and their American counterparts'' New York Times Book Review

Info autore

Annie Jacobsen is the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. A 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist, her other books include Area 51, Operation Paperclip and Surprise, Kill, Vanish, and have been translated into 26 languages. She also writes and produces TV, including Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Annie Jacobsen, Jacobsen Annie
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.2026
• EAN: 9781804998823
• ISBN: 978-1-80499-882-3
• Pagine: 640
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; military history, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, Military intelligence, c 1940 to c 1949, Espionage and secret services, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Military institutions, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Military / Intelligence & Espionage, Information warfare / Cyberwarfare