The Devil's Alchemists

ISBN: 1595265031

Author: Homer, A.R.

Condition: New

Product DescriptionHitler's best chance for victory may come from the least likely quarter...When Hitler's elite Uranium Club hesitates to build the weapon that willensure Nazi victory, SS officer Max Heldorf devises an ingeniouslydevious plan that includes assembling a shadow team of scientistsdrawn from the death camps. Heldorf becomes distracted by the beauty of Dr. Hannah Goldmann, the project's lynchpin, whounwittingly presents him with a dilemma that threatens the project, adilemma that will take all his deceit and cunning to resolve.Meanwhile, American agent Christina Lindgren runs afoul of the Gestapo and istrapped with vital intelligence - and an injured stranger, a member ofthe Danish Resistance. They pool their strengths to escape and toorganize the greatest resistance operation of all time - the rescue ofall of Denmark's Jews. Preoccupied with the dangers of theirundertaking, made more perilous by a traitor in their midst, neitherrealizes they have also come across a secret of monumental proportions:the plans for Hitler's atomic bomb. 'See all 4 formats,' above, for new, less expensive edition.Review"There are many fiction stories coming out the war in Europe, but The Devil's Alchemists is certainly one of the most unique...Sehr gut!" --Military Writers Society of AmericaFrom the AuthorSurely one of the greatest pieces of luck in World War II was that the Germans never got the atom bomb. I say "luck" because German scientists were hard at work on one, as revealed in the famous conversation between German Nobelist Werner Heisenberg and Danish Nobelist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. Germany also had the wherewithal, in the form of genius (the Germans were the first to split the atom) and resources (they controlled most of the world's supply of heavy water and uranium). So why didn't Germany get the bomb? Some surmise that German scientists had moral qualms, others say an atom bomb could not be completed in the time frame demanded by Hitler. In "The Devil's Alchemists," a visionary Nazi scientist finds a way around both of these obstacles.About the AuthorA.R. Homer is the award-winning author of six historical novels. His latest is Through the Dark Clouds Shining: A Saga of Families and the Great War.