12 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon Cover
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12 Seconds Of Silence How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon

Jamie Holmes

The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II—and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war

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The MeatEater Podcast

This was Jamie Holmes's second book, which focused on World War II and a group of scientists who invented a new weapon to shoot down airplanes, which they used successfully against a Nazi super weapon. He fell in love with archive work while researching this book, which served as a bridge from his first book on science to his third.

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The bridge is my second book, which is 12 seconds of silence, which is completely within this genre, which is historical narrative nonfiction with a ton of archive work.

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This was Jamie Holmes's second book, which focused on World War II and a group of scientists who invented a new weapon to shoot down airplanes, which they used successfully against a Nazi super weapon. He fell in love with archive work while researching this book, which served as a bridge from his first book on science to his third.

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The bridge is my second book, which is 12 seconds of silence, which is completely within this genre, which is historical narrative nonfiction with a ton of archive work.

So 12 seconds of silence is it's a, I'm very proud of that book. It's about world war two and he's group of scientists.

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