Operation Paperclip combines relentless reporting and gripping thrillers. It has also become highly topical.

In this captivating and deeply disturbing exposé from the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen tells the compelling story of a decades-long covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. Amid the chaos following World War II, the US government faced a critical decision: what to do with the brilliant scientific minds of the Third Reich. Many were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder. Nevertheless, the US government secretly decided that their knowledge of rocketry and medical advances was crucial to the Cold War efforts.

Based on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, as well as dossiers found in archives around the world, Annie Jacobsen tracks over a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most astonishing, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the twentieth century.

‘Chilling and riveting . . . a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing’ - Boston Globe

‘The most comprehensive account yet of the lives of Paperclip recruits and their American counterparts’ - New York Times Book Review

Pages: 608, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm