Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb The mansion had an astonishing past as an MI6 and M1I9 staging post for some of the most daring secret operations of WWII. V. Every word they uttered was bugged by MI6 eavesdroppers using the wires f
| Title | : | Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (349 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 144565184X |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-24 |
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‘We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the bomb for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.’ R. V. Jones, head of wartime British scientific intelligence
A professor of architecture at Cambridge University, Marcial Echenique, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. The mansion had an astonishing past as an MI6 and M1I9 staging post for some of the most daring secret operations of WWII.
But in April, 1945, Farm Hall was to play an even more astounding role, as a ‘country club’ for ten of Germany’s top nuclear physicists after they had been captured in Germany and secretly flown back to England in a daring raid codenamed Operation Big. Every word they uttered was bugged by MI6 eavesdroppers using the wires found by the Professor. After the dropping of the bomb these men
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Colin Brown is the former deputy political editor of the Independent and political editor of the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent on Sunday. He worked for thirty years as a lobby journalist at Westminster and is the author of five books, including Whitehall – The Street That Shaped a Nation (Simon and Schuster).
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