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In 1945, Hannah Weiss, a Jewish-Austrian scientist, is removed from her laboratory at the Los Alamos National Lab and taken to Leavenworth Prison for interrogation. Major Jack Delaney, a rising star in the shadowy world of military intelligence, is convinced that someone in the United States has been sharing information…
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1 author picked Hannah's War as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This novel, inspired by the little-known story of Austrian-born scientist Lise Meitner, is part spy thriller, part love story, part history lesson. And it was so gripping and fast paced that I devoured it in one day.
The story is set in Los Alamo, New Mexico in the 1940s — where J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists were engaged in an all-stakes race against the Germans to procure the nuclear bomb.
Throughout the book, Eliasberg uses her character, Hannah, to set the record straight about the fact that it was a woman scientist and Austrian Jew who discovered…
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