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Lädt ... Mushroom Cloud : Book I of the First Strike Seriesvon Thomas Yeggy (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I received this series through the Early reviewers program. I couldn't make it through the first of the three books without experiencing a lack of interest. Invoking my reader's rule of 60 plus, I did not choose to experience the second and third books. ( )Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. J'avoue ne rien avoir compris en essayant de lire " Mushroom Cloud ".Un récit confus, qui trazite de l'après période de l'assassinat de JKF Kennedy, en dec 1963, et les implications que ce crime a causé. Mais je n'ai pas accroché à sa lecture, trop brouillon, sans plan défini. Cela ressemble à un essai inabouti. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I have finished the first two books in Thomas Yeggy’s First Strike series. This is a historical fiction series following the development and deployment of nuclear weapons in WWII and Cold War. Book 1 is Mushroom Cloud and is set from the start of WWII to the death of Stalin. Book 2 is Finding Designated Ground Zero and is set from the death of Stalin to JFK’s assassination.I found these two books to very interesting and covers the political and military discussions around the development and deployment of nuclear weapons. The story is primarily set in a conference room and an interrogation of Dr. Caleb Young by William Forde of the FBI. The setting is about one year after the JFK assassination. The books go back and forth in time between the events discussed during the interview and the interactions of the two main characters in the conference room. The fictional Dr. Caleb Young was a physicist who served in the U.S. State Department and the CIA during his career. He was also a member of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, NM. He has kept daily journals of his meetings and major events during his government service. He references the documents during the interrogation. He participated in high level discussions with the White House, military, espionage services, and foreign governments during his service. The story line through these two books is well documented and footnote references to a number of government documents. As a reader who is interested in the cold war, this was a very interesting series to read. To anyone with similar interests regarding the policy development during the cold war, this is a very good novel to further your understanding of the series of events that occurred during this period of history. I received these two books through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I found them to very good and have purchased the third book in the series. I strongly recommend these books to anyone who likes historical fiction. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. This is a well written novel set around the events of the nuclear arms race from the 1950s. I thought that there was a little too much ‘technical’ dialogue in chapters 4 & 5. However, realizing that the author needed to establish Caleb’s formative years, the further I read, the harder it became to put the book down. I’ve been reading history for well over fifty years but learned much from ‘the cold war’ decades. Good work Thomas.I received this book from LibraryThing for an honest review and I award it 4 stars. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The books in the First Strike series trace the life of Dr. Caleb Young, a fictional character who is a composite of our scientific community during the early years of the Cold War. He was born in 1920 in Berkeley, California, to physicist parents who had migrated from Central Europe to escape the Magyarization process in Hungary. They are physicists at Cal Berkley and home-school Caleb in science and the humanities.Caleb takes the SAT test the first year it is offered, aces it, and is one of the first affirmative action, non-blue blood without boarding school credentials to be admitted to Princeton in 1936. He passes all his undergraduate courses in the space of a year and a half and enters Dr. Eugene Wigner's doctoral program. He is defending his thesis, and critics are becoming vocal when a thundering voice (Einstein's) from the back of the auditorium speaks: "Caleb is correct." Caleb was awarded his doctorate at the age of eighteen and a half. He goes on to become a staff scientist for the U.S. State Department in 1940 and works with other Hungarian-born scientists on the Manhattan Project until 1945. In late 1947, he becomes the chief science officer for the newly minted CIA.He must invent several schemes to keep the Soviets at bay until the nuclear deterrent becomes a reality in 1953, the first is operation ;Shellgame where the Silverplate B-29s are shuffled around to keep the Russians guessing, the second is operation "Anaconda" where he convinces the Soviets that the B-36 is a n intercontinental bomber capable of a 10,000-mile roundtrip. Caleb also discloses Stalin's demented plot to overrun Westen Europe resulting in Stalin's murder by Bulgannin and Khrushchev, Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorThomas J. Yeggys Buch Mushroom Cloud wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeine
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