What follows is a series on the
race between the United States and Germany to build the atomic
bomb during World War II.
My intention was to do a two or three-part story on Moe Berg,
but it led to an intriguing story of spies, shady characters,
and odd-ball scientists that I had to continue the series into
the closed, secretive society the Soviet Union in the early years
of the Cold War. Just scroll down to follow the sequence of the
race for the atomic bomb. Now....Part one:
I
Part two
 Part three
Part four  Part
five
 Part six Part
seven Part
eight Part
nine Part
Ten Part eleven, the
final segment
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The Catcher Was a Spy–The
Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by
Nicholas Dawidoff
Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose bubble-gum
baseball card is on display in the headquarters of the CIA. For
Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on
several big league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton
and the Sorbonne, he was reputed to speak a dozen languages and
went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II. Dawidoff
follows his life from his claustrophobic childhood through his
glamorous careers in sports and epionage and into the long, nomadic
years during which he mooched on the hospitality of such acquaintances
as Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein.
5" x 8" 453 pages, index, photos, paperbound ISBN
0-679-76289-2
#107 Catcher Was a Spy $15.95  |
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The Making of the
Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
A step-by-suspensful step of the discovery and invention of man's
mostawesome weapon,. With rich, human, political, and scientific
detail here is the complete story of how the bomb was developed,
from the turn-of-the-century discovery of vast enerty lockd inside
the atom tothe dropping of the first bombs on Japan. The Making
of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance
to William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
It is at once a narrative touir de force and a document as powerful
as its subject.
6" x 9" 886 pages, index, photos, paperbound
#32 Making of the Atomic Bomb $20.00 |
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Stalin's
Captive–Nikolaus Riehl and th Soviet Race for the Bomb
by Nikolaus Riehl and Frederick Seitz, presented by the Americal
Chemical Society
This historic book contains two parts: The main part, translaed
into English from German tells Riehl's absorbing account of his
key role in the production of pure uranium for and his involvement
in, the Soviet nuclear bomb program. The first part was written
by Fred Seitz, a nuclear scientist at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, is an overall narrative of the German scientists
who worked on the Soviet's bomb. It is richly illustrated with
more than 60 photos of prominent scientists including Manfred
Von Ardenne, Max Born, Edoardo Amaldi; Russian big-shots–Beria,
Sakharov, Zavenyagin; and the U.S. Alsos Mission featuring the
mysterious Boris Pash.
6" x 9" 218 pages, index, illustrated, hardbound
ISBN 0-8412-3310-1
#28 Stalin's Captive $34.95 |
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Sisterhood of Spies–The
Women of the OSS by Elizabeth P.
McIntosh
The daring misioins that cloak-and-dagger skullduggery of America's
World War II intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services
(OSS), are well documented and have become the stuff of legend.
Yet the contributions of the four thousand women who made up
one-fifth of the OSSstaff have gone largely unheralded. Here
for the first time is a chronicle of their fascinating adventures,
told by one of their own. A seasoned journalist and veteran of
sensitive OSS and CIA operations, Mrs. McIntosh draws on her
own experiences and interviews with more than a hundred other
OSS women to reveal some of the most tantalizing, saucy, and
sexy escapades of the war in Europe and Asia.
6" x 9" 284 pages, index, photos, hardbound
#110 Sisterhood of Spies $32.95 |
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Here are two volumes containing reproductions of Flashbacks cartoons:
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A Cartoon of the
District of Columbia Flashbacks
Volume One Patrick M.
Reynolds brings history
to life with a sense of humor. His exciting drawings put you
on the scene with the conflicts, madness, plus the wheeling and
dealing that resulted in the location and construction of the
U.S. capital city. This book covers the early history of DC from
1776 to 1863. You'll be surprised at how many cities served as
the U.S. capital; you'll be amazed that the city was built--despite
all the bickering, petty jealousies, and down-right stupidity.
11¾" x 7½" 106 pages, full color illustrations,
index, paperbound ISBN 0-932514-31-6
#F1 Cartoon History of DC $25.00 #F1 Cartoon History of DC $25.00  |
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Flashbacks Volume Two
DC Neighborhoods Flashbacks Vol. Two Artist-writer Patrick
M. Reynolds takes you to the Washington that tourists seldom
see The U.S. capital expanded with the growth of public transportation
into such areas as Shepard Park, Takoma Park, Chevy Chase, Kalorama,
Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan, Capital Hill, LeDroit Park, Tenleytown,
Brookland, and others. Stories in this book go back to the explorations
of Capt. John Smith in the 1600s and the Indian Wars of early
Virginia, continuing into the 20th century with the introduction
of the cherry trees to Washington and the end of segregation
in public schools.
11¾" x 7½" 106 pages, full color illustrations,
index, paperbound ISBN 0-932514-33-2
#F2 Cartoon History of DC $14.95 |
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