The general and the genius : Groves and Oppenheimer--the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
(Audiobook)
Author
Contributors
Hillgartner, Malcolm, narrator.
Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
12 audio discs (14 hr., 5 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Osborne Public Library | CD Kunetka, James | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Atomic bomb -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History.
Audiobooks.
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
Groves, Leslie R., -- 1896-1970.
Los Alamos National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
Military engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, -- 1904-1967.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Audiobooks.
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
Groves, Leslie R., -- 1896-1970.
Los Alamos National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
Military engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, -- 1904-1967.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
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Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015].
Format
Audiobook
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
UPC
9781504671033
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner.
Description
Two ambitious men. One historic mission.With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century.Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, who had made his name by building the Pentagon in record time and under budget, was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer-the chain-smoking, martini-quaffing son of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose background was riddled with communist associations-Groves's opposite in nearly every respect. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team in a secret mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human race to unimaginable new terrors. And at the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two extraordinary men-the general and the genius.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kunetka, J. W., & Hillgartner, M. (2015). The general and the genius: Groves and Oppenheimer--the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb (Unabridged.). Blackstone Audio, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kunetka, James W., 1944- and Malcolm, Hillgartner. 2015. The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer--the Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb. Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kunetka, James W., 1944- and Malcolm, Hillgartner. The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer--the Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb Blackstone Audio, Inc, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kunetka, James W., and Malcolm Hillgartner. The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer--the Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb Unabridged., Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2015.
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