Table of Contents
Author's Note xiii
Prologue: Summer of '44 3
Part I Prewar, to 1939
Chapter 1 Professor Berg 13
Chapter 2 Near Misses and Big Hits 23
Chapter 3 Fast and Slow 38
Chapter 4 Crimea to Hollywood 41
Chapter 5 Division 48
Chapter 6 Spinning out of Control 61
Chapter 7 Banzai Berg 75
Chapter 8 On the Brink 82
Part II 1940-1941
Chapter 9 The Uranium Club 91
Chapter 10 Heavy Water 105
Chapter 11 Phoney to Real 111
Chapter 12 Mad Jack 113
Chapter 13 Compromise 120
Chapter 14 Harvard Highs and Lows 123
Chapter 15 Maud Ray Kent 126
Part III 1942
Chapter 16 Resistance 131
Chapter 17 The Fire Heard 'Round the World 136
Chapter 18 Off to War 141
Chapter 19 Brazil and Beyond 147
Chapter 20 Baja Days 157
Chapter 21 V-1, V-2, V-3 162
Chapter 22 Letters 164
Chapter 23 Operation Freshman 169
Chapter 24 The Italian Navigator 180
Part IV 1943
Chapter 25 Secret Messages 187
Chapter 26 Operation Gunnerside 191
Chapter 27 Consolations of Philosophy 207
Chapter 28 "The Fun Will Start" 214
Chapter 29 Seeing Red 220
Chapter 30 Beautiful Peenemünde 226
Chapter 31 PT-109 234
Chapter 32 Blabbermouth 238
Chapter 33 Heavy Water under Fire 243
Chapter 34 Alsos 250
Part V 1944
Chapter 35 Busy Lizzie 257
Chapter 36 Groves's Second Assault 261
Chapter 37 The Ferry 264
Chapter 38 Sharks 271
Chapter 39 Biscay Blues 276
Chapter 40 The Fat Captain 281
Chapter 41 Augers & Peppermint 284
Chapter 42 Remus 289
Chapter 43 Aphrodite vs. Anvil 296
Chapter 44 Valkyrie 304
Chapter 45 Escape and Resistance 308
Chapter 46 Lightning-A 312
Chapter 47 Zootsuit Black 324
Chapter 48 Catching Pretty Well 332
Chapter 49 "I'll Be Seeing You" 335
Chapter 50 The Quisling Zoo 339
Chapter 51 Healthy Rays, Healthy Teeth, Healthy Paranoia 345
Chapter 52 The Deadliest Hombre 351
Chapter 53 Nazi U 359
Chapter 54 Uncertainty, Principles 366
Part VI 1945
Chapter 55 Operation Big 377
Chapter 56 The Lonely Organist 386
Chapter 57 Triumph and Loss 391
Chapter 58 Goimany 398
Chapter 59 The Bomb Drops 404
Epilogues: 1946 and Beyond 412
A Thank-You and a Bonus 421
Acknowledgments 423
Major Characters 425
Minor Characters 427
Sources 429
Index 435