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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An engaging new history of the Royal Society of London, the club that created modern scientific thought. Founded in 1660 to advance knowledge through experimentally verified facts, The Royal Society of London is now one of the preeminent scientific institutions of the world. It published the world's first science journal, and has counted scientific luminaries from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking among its members. However, the road to truth was often...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On the night of June 13th, 1944, a twelve-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. The SAS patrol was ultimately betrayed, captured, and tortured by the Gestapo before facing execution in a dark French woodland on Hitler's personal orders. Miraculously, two of the condemned men managed to escape, triggering one of the most secretive Nazi-hunting operations ever, as the SAS vowed to track down every one of the war criminals who had murdered their...
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