THE BASTARD BRIGADE: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2019). Hardcover first edition - The story of a group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining a nuclear bomb - among those who played roles in this story were Moe Berg, a major league catcher who abandoned the game for a career as a multilingual international spy - one of the strangest fellows to ever play professional baseball; Werner Heisenberg the Nobel Prize-winning physicist credited as the discoverer of quantum mechanics; Joe Kennedy Jr. older brother of JFK whose need for adventure led him to volunteer for the most dangerous missions the Navy had to offer; and Irne and Frederic Joliot-Curie, a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who used their status as scientists to become active members of the resistance. Illustrated with photographs. List of major characters, sources, index.xii, 447 pp. ISBN: 978-0316381680.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.