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Nancy Keane's | Booktalks -- Quick and Simple | |
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Sheinkin, Steve.
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Do you like mysteries? Your history book holds an incredible one. How many people have heard of the atom bomb? To win World War II, the United States not only had to build the most dangerous bomb in the world, but it also had to prevent Germany from developing it first. Both operations were secret, but the Soviet Union had a secret operation in progress, too. They wanted to know about the weapons their “friends” had. They were especially interested in a very dangerous secret weapon called “The Gadget.” That was the code name for the atom bomb. This is the story of how the most brilliant scientists, the most highly skilled spies, and the most daring commandos cooperated and competed in a cutthroat race to get the Bomb. (Lucy Schall. Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks! ABC-CLIO, 2013, pp. 144-145) (South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, 2015,Prepared by: Donna Maher, Anderson University, maher.donna@gmail.com) |
| SUBJECTS: Atomic bomb -- History. World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Russia. World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 -- Vemork (Norway) Operation Freshman, 1942. Atomic bomb. |
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