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In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb,and to make sure nobody saw them doing it. Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the world's only supply of uniquely high-quality uranium ore,the key ingredient for bomb, could be found in the Katanga province of the Belgian Congo at the Shinkolobwe Mine. Once the US Manhattan Project was committed to developing atomic weapons for the war against Germany and Japan, the rush to procure this uranium became a top priority,one deemed vital to the welfare of the United States."But covertly exporting it from Africa posed a major risk: the ore had to travel via a spy-infested Angolan port or 1,500 miles by rail through the Congo, and then be shipped by boats or Pan Am Clippers to safety in the United States. It could be poached or smuggled at any point on the orders of Nazi Germany. To combat that threat, the US Office of Strategic Services sent in a team of intrepid spies, led by Wilbur Owings Dock" Hogue, to be America's eyes and ears and to protect its most precious and destructive cargo.Packed with newly discovered details from American and British archives, this is the gripping, true story of the unsung heroism of a handful of good men,and one woman,in colonial Africa who risked their lives in the fight against fascism and helped deny Hitler his atomic bomb.

New York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos, "At the Edge of a Wood," hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy Manhattan lawyer, Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. It is a beautiful but comfortless landscape. The lawyer s marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. When a struggling art history grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she finds herself entangled with its owner in ways no one could predict. By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game. The author, a Russian Grandmaster and endgame expert, takes the reader from the most elementary Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II download ebook pdf checkmates, through the exploitation of positional and material advantage, right up to the analysis of actual endings from master play.

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Author: Susan Williams
Number of Pages: 432 pages
Published Date: 09 Aug 2016
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781610396547
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