Operation Big by Colin Brown
ISBN 978 1 4456 8285 3 Amberley Publishing
What a corker. The Race to Stop Hitlers A Bomb. Reads more like a James Bond Novel than fact. for instance. 21st June 1940 SS Broompark Ex Bordeaux arrives Falmouth bearing. The entire stock of Norwegian Heavy Water liberated from France, all of the French nuclear research archive and 27 French nuclear scientists all gathered in by Wild Jack Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk and a swashbuckler of the first swash. He aslo incidentally comes home with working examples, drawings and spare parts for the 20mm Hispano cannon plus 600 tons of American machine tools destined for the French aero industry and 'liberated' from the dockside. As if that's not enough excitement Werner Heisenberg he of the Uncertainty Principle, subjects Leipzig to to an atomic blast in 1943 when a small experimental reactor with no scram facility runs away and blows up. Pictures available on Bing!