Now It Can Be Told, Leslie R. Groves
Now It Can Be Told, Leslie R. Groves
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Now It Can Be Told
The Story Of The Manhattan Project

Author: Leslie R. Groves

Narrator: Scott R. Pollak

Unabridged: 16 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/14/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon. This is his story of the political, logistical, and personal problems of this enormous undertaking which involved foreign governments, sensitive issues of press censorship, the construction of huge plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge, and a race to build the bomb before the Nazis got wind of it. The role of groves in the Manhattan Project has always been controversial. In his new introduction the noted physicist Edward Teller, who was there at Los Alamos, candidly assesses the general's contributions-and Oppenheimer's-while reflecting on the awesome legacy of their work. This audiobook is masterfully read by Scott R. Pollak, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Scott R. Pollak. Copyright (C) 1962 by Leslie R. Groves (P) (2024) Echo Point Books & Media, LLC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on March 06, 2013

Written by a british war correspondant who was present in and around the front lines of the western front for the entirety of WWI. Title refers to the fact that his writings here are published without the censorship that was in place during the war. An absolutely outstanding account of the realities......more

Goodreads review by Miriam on September 20, 2016

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in World War I. It paints a realistic and brutal picture of the daily reality for millions of people during the "war to end all wars." This is the stuff Gibbs wasn't allowed to publish during the war, and it's incredible. A reminder of the tangible and......more

Goodreads review by David on November 25, 2016

I would describe this book as literary nonfiction. Its magnificent, heartbreaking prose is like poetry - infinitely readable. And horrific. It makes you ask a hundred questions, as it did the survivors of this great crime: Why? How can there be a God? Is this why Britain went Socialist and mostly pa......more

Goodreads review by Sidney Weber on August 21, 2015

Brilliant description of the horrors of war This book describes WWI as seen by a journalist who was there throughout its extent. The description is simply brilliant. Without concentrating on the gory details, it captures the physical and mental horrors suffered by the soldiers in a manner that would......more

Goodreads review by Charles on December 30, 2012

Gibbs was one of five reporters embedded with British troops in WWI. His substantial reporting during the war was heavily censored--no bad news for the home front and all those johnnies who may want to enlist. After the war, no longer fettered, he roundly chastises the British high command and the B......more

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