Scientific Information in Wartime

The Allied-German Rivalry, 1939-1945

Autor: Pamela Spence Richards

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Editura: Praeger Publishers

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This book describes how the growing awareness of the strategic importance of science in the 1930s ca...

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Autor

Pamela Spence Richards

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1994

Pagini

192

EAN

9780313290626

ISBN

0313290628

Enbook ID

04584579

Editura

Praeger Publishers

Greutate

439

Dimensiuni

157 x 235 x 15

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This book describes how the growing awareness of the strategic importance of science in the 1930s caused the Allied and German leadership to build scientific information supply systems that survived into the postwar era. Using archival materials from five countries, Richards traces the successes and failures of these early scientific intelligence agencies. She focuses on the OSS unit supplying copy for the US government's wartime program to reprint current German scientific journals. She describes as well the methods used by the OSS to spirit individual journal issues from inside the Reich to microfilm squads on Germany's periphery, and gives special attention to the Allied quest for information about the mythical German atomic bomb. Richards also describes the supply system set up by the Nazi government, and how its increasing desperation for Allied scientific news led in the last year of the war to a submarine landing of Abwehr agents on the U.S. coast to microfilm periodicals at the New York Public Library. The final chapter of her book looks at how the wartime experience with scientific information influenced postwar patterns of scientific documentation and librarianship in each country.

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