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1	The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington more books like this by Jennet Conant Following her bestselling accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, Conant offers a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intrigue in the highest circles of Washington during the tumultuous days of World War II. 16 pages of b&w photographs. see all copies from £12.48! new only from £13.86! \| first editions
2	109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos more books like this by Jennet Richards Conant In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government on a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Los Alamos was a secret city, a primitive barbed-wire-enclosed encampment whose makeshift dormitories and labs housed ... see all copies from £2.12! new only from £2.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Tuxedo Park: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos more books like this by Jennet Richards Conant In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring trans-atlantic mission. The British unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with American nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II more books like this by Jennet Richards Conant The fascinating, little known story of Alfred Loomis, a wealthy eccentric who bankrolled pioneering research into the radar detection system and the atomic bomb. In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring ... see all copies from £5.37! new only from £7.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Tuxedo Park more books like this by Jennet Richards Conant This is the story of Alfred L. Loomis, the eccentric Wall Street tycoon, millionaire, and amateur scientist whose participation behind the scenes of World War II aided in bringing about its conclusion. In his mansion in Tuxedo Park, Loomis culled the great minds of his times, funded research on radar detection systems, and championed the ... see all copies from £7.54! new only from £22.18! \| first editions

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