AREA 51 won the Goodreads Choice Award, Best History and Biography. OPERATION PAPERCLIP was chosen as one of the best non-fiction books of 2014 by The Boston Globe, Apple iBooks, and Publishers Weekly. THE PENTAGON’S BRAIN was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in history one of the Washington Post’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 one of The Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2015 and one of Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2015. SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH was reported by Apple to be one of the most popular nonfiction audiobooks of 2019. She also writes and produces TV including Tom Clancy’s JACK RYAN (Amazon) and CLARICE (CBS). She has appeared on countless TV programs and media platforms-from PBS Newshour to Joe Rogan-discussing war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. In this definitive, controversial look at one of America's most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security.ANNIE JACOBSEN is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of AREA 51, OPERATION PAPERCLIP, THE PENTAGON’S BRAIN, PHENOMENA, SURPRISE, KILL VANISH, and FIRST PLATOON. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War? Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds.

In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.

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