Was There a Fifth Man? (eBook)

Quintessential Recollections

Wilfrid Basil Mann (Autor)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
184 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-4713-0 (ISBN)

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Was There a Fifth Man? Quintessential Recollections presents the author's personal account of his professional life as an experimental physicist in the service, at different times, of each of the three countries that joined forces at the Quebec Conference in 1943 to produce the atom bomb. The author has been identified, though always in a way which was just short of actionable, with the so-called ''Fifth Man'' of the long-running British spy saga. For his sake and that of his family, he felt duty-bound to set the record straight before myth had time to trespass on history. Making extensive use of dated correspondence and publications, he shows precisely where he was at the times that an individual called ''Basil'' was supposed to have been operating in collusion with Donald Maclean at the British Embassy in Washington. He claims that the misfit between ''Basil'' and himself is epitomized by the fact that when Basil was supposed to be entering the scene in Washington for an extensive sojourn, the author was actually leaving Washington for the United Kingdom.

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Was There a Fifth Man? Quintessential Recollections presents the author's personal account of his professional life as an experimental physicist in the service, at different times, of each of the three countries that joined forces at the Quebec Conference in 1943 to produce the atom bomb. The author has been identified, though always in a way which was just short of actionable, with the so-called "e;"e;Fifth Man"e;"e; of the long-running British spy saga. For his sake and that of his family, he felt duty-bound to set the record straight before myth had time to trespass on history. Making extensive use of dated correspondence and publications, he shows precisely where he was at the times that an individual called "e;"e;Basil"e;"e; was supposed to have been operating in collusion with Donald Maclean at the British Embassy in Washington. He claims that the misfit between "e;"e;Basil"e;"e; and himself is epitomized by the fact that when Basil was supposed to be entering the scene in Washington for an extensive sojourn, the author was actually leaving Washington for the United Kingdom.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Was There a Fifth Man? 6
Copyright Page 7
Publishers' Note 8
Preface 10
Table of Contents 14
List of Illustrations 16
Chapter 1. The Family of Mann 18
Chapter 2. England 28
Chapter 3. Washington 46
Chapter 4. Mainly in Canada 60
Chapter 5. Washington Again 79
Chapter 6. Washington — A Digression 98
Chapter 7. England — An Interlude 108
Chapter 8. Washington — A New Career 112
Chapter 9. Mr 'S' and Other Encounters 117
Chapter 10. The Curious Climate of Treason 134
References 157
Appendix A Letters Referred to in the Text 158
Appendix B Biographical Notes 182
Index of Personal Names 186

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-4713-4 / 1483147134
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-4713-0 / 9781483147130