Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State

by Brian E. Crim

Book Overview

A gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations.

Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421438186
• ISBN13: 9781421438184
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher