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Book Sabotage in the Secret City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diane Fanning
  • Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
  • Release : 2018-07-01
  • ISBN : 1780109601
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Sabotage in the Secret City written by Diane Fanning and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark must uncover the traitor within in this gripping World War II mystery. May 1945. Harry S. Truman has become president, the Allied Forces are closing in on Berlin and the research scientists at the secret facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, are doing their bit to bring the war to as swift a conclusion as possible. But does the end justify the means? Libby Clark has mixed feelings about the horror she and her fellow scientists are labouring to unleash on the citizens of Japan – and it seems she’s not the only one to have doubts. A campaign of small acts of sabotage convinces Libby that one of their number is deliberately trying to delay the mission. But when the pranks turn deadly, Libby is forced once again to turn undercover sleuth in order to unmask the traitor within, prevent further deaths and keep the focus on ending World War II.

Book Secret City

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  • Author : Gunnar S. Paulsson
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300095463
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Secret City written by Gunnar S. Paulsson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poles, Germans, and the Jews themselves were largely unaware, they formed what can aptly be called a secret city. Paulsson challenges many established assumptions. He shows that despite appalling difficulties and dangers, many of these Jews survived; that the much-reviled German, Polish, and Jewish policemen, as well as Jewish converts and their families, were key in helping Jews escape; that though many more Poles helped than harmed the Jews, most stayed neutral; and that escape and hiding happened

Book Scandal in the Secret City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diane Fanning
  • Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
  • Release : 2014-11-01
  • ISBN : 1780105681
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Scandal in the Secret City written by Diane Fanning and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libby Clark takes a feminist approach to science—and solving a murder—in this “gripping puzzler of a mystery” set in WWII Tennessee (Library Journal). Oak Ridge, Tennessee is known as the Secret City. It rose seemingly overnight in 1942, built by the US government. No one was quite sure what its purpose was, but there was certainly something going on . . . Libby Clark, a gutsy Bryn Mawr graduate, is determined to find her place as a scientist in a world where women are thought better suited to housework and marriage. As the only female scientist in the top-secret facility, Libby is excited to begin what she believes is important government research. But she soon discovers that something more sinister is afoot. One frosty night she finds the dead body of her roommate’s sister sprawled behind the bleachers. The police don’t seem to think finding the killer is important, so it’s up to Libby to make sense of the situation. Aided by a band of like-minded scientists, Libby follows every possible lead . . . even as they take her to a shocking conclusion. Scandal in the Secret City is the first book in the Libby Clark Mysteries, which also includes Treason in the Secret City and Sabotage in the Secret City. “Fanning re-creates the atmosphere at Oak Ridge effectively, and her exploration of the ethical issues surrounding security are timely today. A promising new series.” —Booklist “Readers will be engrossed by . . . [the] authentic details.” —Library Journal, starred review “An intriguing change from Fanning . . . bolstered by thought-provoking details of the obstacles women faced in the wartime workforce.” —Kirkus Reviews

Book Terror on Black Oak Ridge

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  • Author : Daniel S. Zulli
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2022-10-25
  • ISBN : 1639618252
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Terror on Black Oak Ridge written by Daniel S. Zulli and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabotage in the Secret City! MIT physicist Dale Hargrowe's life is turned upside down when he's unexpectedly ordered to report to Oak Ridge, Tennessee--a city that doesn't officially exist--to work on a "gadget" that will end World War II. But Dale uncovers a plot from inside to thwart the project. He and his new friend, the beautiful and adventurous Brenda Andrews, are the only two who want to stop this terrible scheme, which possibly involves those of the highest rank and responsibility in Oak Ridge. Along the way, Dale and Brenda's budding relationship takes a turn for the worse, and Brenda freezes Dale out of her life, just when he needs her the most. As Dale takes on the hidden powers in Oak Ridge, he also discovers that he is spiritually bankrupt and seeks the counsel of a local pastor, who guides Dale in the eternal truths of God's Word. America's war effort is being betrayed, and Dale desperately needs Brenda--and God--to help him save the work in top-secret Oak Ridge from the wicked forces seeking to destroy it.

Book The Perfect Weapon

Download or read book The Perfect Weapon written by David E. Sanger and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN HBO® DOCUMENTARY FROM AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR JOHN MAGGIO • “An important—and deeply sobering—new book about cyberwarfare” (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times), now updated with a new chapter. The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies, dictators, and terrorists. Two presidents—Bush and Obama—drew first blood with Operation Olympic Games, which used malicious code to blow up Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, and yet America proved remarkably unprepared when its own weapons were stolen from its arsenal and, during President Trump’s first year, turned back on the United States and its allies. And if Obama would begin his presidency by helping to launch the new era of cyberwar, he would end it struggling unsuccessfully to defend the 2016 U.S. election from interference by Russia, with Vladimir Putin drawing on the same playbook he used to destabilize Ukraine. Moving from the White House Situation Room to the dens of Chinese government hackers to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger reveals a world coming face-to-face with the perils of technological revolution, where everyone is a target. “Timely and bracing . . . With the deep knowledge and bright clarity that have long characterized his work, Sanger recounts the cunning and dangerous development of cyberspace into the global battlefield of the twenty-first century.”—Washington Post

Book Secret City

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  • Author : James Kirchick
  • Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
  • Release : 2022-05-31
  • ISBN : 1627792333
  • Pages : 607 pages

Download or read book Secret City written by James Kirchick and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair's “Best Books of 2022” “Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.” —George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City. For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere of political Washington, the secret “too loathsome to mention” held enormous, terrifying power. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, interviews with over one hundred people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Secret City is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Beginning with the tragic story of Sumner Welles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s brilliant diplomatic advisor and the man at the center of “the greatest national scandal since the existence of the United States,” James Kirchick illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the twentieth century. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people sparked a decades-long witch hunt, impacting everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for Black civil rights, and the rise of the conservative movement. Among other revelations, Kirchick tells of the World War II–era gay spymaster who pioneered seduction as a tool of American espionage, the devoted aide whom Lyndon Johnson treated as a son yet abandoned once his homosexuality was discovered, and how allegations of a “homosexual ring” controlling Ronald Reagan nearly derailed his 1980 election victory. Magisterial in scope and intimate in detail, Secret City will forever transform our understanding of American history.

Book Sabotage Art

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  • Author : Sophie Halart
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-03-31
  • ISBN : 0857727087
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Sabotage Art written by Sophie Halart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an artistic strategy most notably in Latin America. In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art. Sabotage Art reveals how contemporary Latin American artists have resorted to sabotage strategies as a means to bridge the gap between aesthetics and politics. The global status of and market for Latin American art is growing rapidly. This book is essential reading for those who want to understand this new, dissident work, as well as its mystification, co-option and commercialisation within current academic historiographies and art-world curatorial initiatives."

Book The Prophets of Oak Ridge

Download or read book The Prophets of Oak Ridge written by Dan Zak and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2012, in the dead of night, three peace activists- a drifter, an 82-year-old nun, and a house painter- penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. What if they had been terrorists armed with explosives, intent on mass destruction? That nightmare scenario underlies the government’s response to the intrusion. THE PROPHETS OF OAK RIDGE is the story of two competing worldviews, of conscience vs. court, of fantasy vs. reality, of history vs. the future.

Book Sabotage at Sports City

Download or read book Sabotage at Sports City written by Franklin W. Dixon and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone threatens to bring about the deaths of fifty-three people at the upcoming summer Olympics, Frank and Joe Hardy go undercover to protect the athletes from the unknown killer. Original.

Book Mommy s Little Girl

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  • Author : Diane Fanning
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2009-11-03
  • ISBN : 1429988509
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Mommy s Little Girl written by Diane Fanning and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Please note: This ebook does not contain the photos found in the print edition of this title.*** When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the nation. The search for Caylee made front-page headlines. But there was one huge question mark hanging over the case: the girl's mother. As the investigation continued and suspicions mounted, Casey became the prime suspect. In October, based on new evidence against Casey—her erratic behavior and lies, her car that showed signs of human decomposition—a grand jury indicted the young single mother. Then, two months later, police found Caylee's remains a quarter of a mile away from the Anthony home. Casey pled not guilty to charges of murder in the first degree, and she continues to protest her innocence. Did she or didn't she kill Caylee? Mommy's Little Girl is the story of one of the most shocking, confusing, and horrific crimes in modern American history.

Book The Secrets of the Secret City

Download or read book The Secrets of the Secret City written by Julius (cartoonist.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thea Stilton and the Chocolate Sabotage  Thea Stilton  19

Download or read book Thea Stilton and the Chocolate Sabotage Thea Stilton 19 written by Thea Stilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on an adventure packed with mystery and friendship! The Thea Sisters are visiting a friend in Ecuador who has a sweet job -- he runs a chocolate factory! His factory is in the running for a major award for its environmental methods. But suddenly, chocolate production starts to malfunction. Is it sabotage? It's up to the Thea Sisters to solve this mouthwatering mystery!

Book Australia s Secret War

Download or read book Australia s Secret War written by Hal Colebatch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Colebatch's new book, AUSTRALIA'S SECRET WAR, tells the shocking, true, but until now largely suppressed and hidden story of the war waged from 1939 to 1945 by a number of key Australian trade unions against their own society and against the men and women of their own country's fighting forces at the time of its gravest peril. His conclusions are based on a broad range of sources, from letters and first-person interviews between the author and ex-servicemen to official and unofficial documents from the archives of World War II. Between 1939 and 1945 virtually every major Australian warship, including at different times its entire force of cruisers, was targeted by strikes, go-slows and sabo­tage. Australian soldiers operating in New Guinea and the Pacific Islands went without food, radio equipment and munitions, and Aus­tralian warships sailed to and from combat zones without ammunition, because of strikes at home. Planned rescue missions for Australian prisoners-of-war in Borneo were abandoned because wharf strikes left rescuers without heavy weapons. Officers had to restrain Australian and American troops from killing striking trade unionists.

Book Rumble in the Jungle  Geronimo Stilton  53

Download or read book Rumble in the Jungle Geronimo Stilton 53 written by Geronimo Stilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each Geronimo Stilton book is fast-paced, with lively full-color art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love. I, Geronimo Stilton, was off to the wildest part of Brazil -- the Amazon jungle! I ended up on a hunt for a rare crystal treasure, which was stolen from a native tribe in the heart of the forest. I'd encounter alligators, snakes, piranhas, and other dangers on my way. Holey cheese! What an adventure!

Book Thea Stilton and the Journey to the Lion s Den  Thea Stilton  17

Download or read book Thea Stilton and the Journey to the Lion s Den Thea Stilton 17 written by Thea Stilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on this adventure packed with mystery and friendship! The Thea Sisters are in Kenya on a photo safari! The mouselets love exploring the magnificent landscape and learning about the animals on the reserve they're visiting. A lion cub has just been born -- but while they're there, he's kidnapped! It's up to the Thea Sisters to rescue him in an adventure across the savanna.

Book The Super Chef Contest  Geronimo Stilton  58

Download or read book The Super Chef Contest Geronimo Stilton 58 written by Geronimo Stilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each Geronimo Stilton book is fast-paced, with lively full-color art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love. My cousin Trap was entering the Super Chef Contest, which determines the best cook on Mouse Island -- and he was bringing me along as an assistant! Slimy Swiss cheese, I don't know the first thing about cooking fancy dishes . . . and I didn't think Trap did, either. I was in for an appetizing adventure!

Book Dance Challenge  Thea Stilton Mouseford Academy  4

Download or read book Dance Challenge Thea Stilton Mouseford Academy 4 written by Thea Stilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on an adventure through Mouseford Academy! The Thea Sisters and all the mouselets are delighted about the new performing arts program being offered at the Academy. All of them are looking forward to different courses such as singing, acting and dancing. That is until they meet the head of the department & they find out that they have to audition just to get in the classes.