Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact (First Edition)

New York: Viking, 2003. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Quarter brown over cream paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Publisher's original price of $29.95 on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 535 pages, with illustrations, notes, select bibliography, and index. A book describing scientific life in Germany in the buildup to, during, and after World War II. Detailed is the discrimination and persecution of scientists' groups marginalized by Nazi Germanysuch as the Jews, the failed development of a nuclear weapon, the development of rocket technology, and the human experiments performed during World War II. The Guardian review called the book a "timely and important study" John Cornwell (b. 1940) is the British investigative journalist and author whose major works include Earth to Earth (Gold Dagger Award, 1982) and Seminary Boy (PEN/Ackerley nominee).…