Laboratory Warriors - by Tom Shachtman (Paperback)

About the Book

Scientists and technologists played a larger part in World War II than in any previous conflict, yet their achievements have been overlooked. Shachtman, author of the classic "The Phony War, 1939-1940, " tells the whole story of the secret war--a war deeply relevant to today's threats from electronic, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

Book Synopsis

The dreadful global conflagration known as the Second World War was more than the clashing of great armies on bloody battlefields. A different kind of war was being waged in the secret laboratories on both sides of the conflict -- a war that would alter the course and determine the outcome of the bitter hostilities, forever changing our world and our future.

While it is a widely accepted fact that America's development and employment of the atomic bomb ended the Pacific struggle -- and that the failure of Hitler's scientists to develop their own A-bomb helped to doom Germany -- little has been made of the other remarkable scientific accomplishments of this dark and terrible epoch. Edifying, enthralling, startling, and sobering, Laboratory Warriors is a masterful work that sheds light on the technological achievements that swung the pendulum of victory in the Allies' direction.