Gareth Williams is emeritus professor and former dean of medicine at the University of Bristol. He is the author of over 200 medical papers and 20 books, including Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox and Unravelling the Double Helix.
“Sparkles with originality.”—Richard Moore, author of Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality “Winston Churchill’s wartime military assistant Ian Jacob quipped to him that the Allies won the war “because our German scientists were better than their German scientists”. Three of these scientific refugees from 1930s Nazi Germany who became British citizens played key roles in the pivotal British contribution to creating the apparently all-American atomic bomb—the subject of Gareth Williams’s history, which reveals and brings to life this crucial but unfamiliar drama.”—Andrew Robinson, author of Einstein on the Run “A fast-paced yet rigorous account of one of the most important – and deadly – projects in scientific history.”—Richard Toye, author of Age of Hope “Williams provides a comprehensive, rich and accessible account of the crucial, yet often overlooked role that British scientists played in the development of the atomic bomb. A must read for everyone interested in this important aspect of the history of science, technology and humanity.”—Christoph Laucht, author of Elemental Germans