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  • THE BASTARD BRIGADE: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Kean, Sam
    Kean, Sam
    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…

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    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.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86233
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  • RECUEIL DES PUBLICATIONS SCIENTIFIQUES. by Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857-1913), Preface de Charles Bailly et Leopold Gautier. [Moe Berg, association copy]
    Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857-1913), Preface de Charles Bailly et Leopold Gautier. [Moe Berg, association copy]
    RECUEIL DES PUBLICATIONS SCIENTIFIQUES.

    Edition: First edition.

    Geneva: Societe Anonyme des editions Sonor 1922. First edition - Recueil indispensable d'articles de base dus ˆ Ferdinand de Saussure, auteur du fameux Cours de linguistique generale, et dont le role dans l'evolution de la linguistique moderne a ete dŽterminant. En Francais (Text in French) The essential writings by the Swiss scholar who is considered the father of modern linguistics and of semiotics, with a preface by Charles Bailly et LŽopold Gautier, two of his students who were instrumental in publishing posthumously his "Cours de linguistique generale." This work includes papers dating back to 1879 (Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes) and continuing throughout his career. Quite scarce in the first edition. This copy…

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    Geneva: Societe Anonyme des editions Sonor 1922. First edition - Recueil indispensable d'articles de base dus ˆ Ferdinand de Saussure, auteur du fameux Cours de linguistique generale, et dont le role dans l'evolution de la linguistique moderne a ete dŽterminant. En Francais (Text in French) The essential writings by the Swiss scholar who is considered the father of modern linguistics and of semiotics, with a preface by Charles Bailly et LŽopold Gautier, two of his students who were instrumental in publishing posthumously his "Cours de linguistique generale." This work includes papers dating back to 1879 (Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes) and continuing throughout his career. Quite scarce in the first edition. This copy is quite fragile and worn, but far more interesting than the flaws is the evidence that it presumably belonged to the baseball player, intelligence officer and scholar, Moe Berg: it is stamped in several places with "Morris (Moe) Berg." Berg (1902-1972) played in the major leagues for 15 years and he joined the fledging OSS during World War II where he was pivotal in gaining information on whether or not the Germans where developing a nuclear bomb. Throughout his life, he was known for his ability to speak many languages (he graduated from Princeton with a degree in modern literature and the ability to read seven languages, and he later added more, including Japanese). A seminal book on linguistics from the library of one of the most unique of American scholars. Index. 638 pp.

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    Condition: Fair condition only in the original wrappers (rear cover missing, front cover detached but present, beginning to separate at signatures, stamp of previous owner and underlining on a few pages.)

    Book ID: 59303
    View cart More details Price: $750.00