Tabbi: Pynchon's Psychology of Engineers

[Dave Monroe]

That's come up elsewhere, as I recall.  But as
problematic as that may appear to us now, Irving's
book was one of the earlier, better books on those
Nazi super weapons (ditto his The German Atomic Bomb
a.k.a. The Virus House  on, well, the Nazi a-bomb
project--also online at that site, by the way,
thanks), and he hadn't at that time quite become the
David Irving that we've come to know and despise, so
...

The McGovern book, on the other hand, requires no
denazification.  On such "intellectual reaprations,"
see more recently, e.g., ...

Gimbel, John.  Science, Technology and Reparations:
  Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany.
  Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1990.

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=1761%20%20

As well as the first chapter of ...

Cockburn, Alexander. and Jeffrey St. Clair.
   Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press.
   New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
   
http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/c-titles/cockburn_alex_whiteout.shtml

Convenienty excerpted at ...

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/project-paperclip4.htm

And for those who prefer their history as reencated by
george Peppard and Sophia Loren ...

Operation Crossbow (1965)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0059549/

And, for the record ...

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_maresnest.htm

"Officially he is one of the American industrialists
out here with the T[echnical] Force, scouting German
engineering, secret weaponry in particular." (GR Pt.
3, Ep. 26, p. 558)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53752

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Something which caught my eye:
> 
> [...] Pynchon's own sources, David Irving's _The
> Mare's Nest_ and James McGovern's _Crossbow and
> Overcast_, show that the looting of German 
> technological achievements did in fact go on among
> competing Allied powers, much as Pynchon describes
> it in _GR_. (172-3)
> 
> Irving, David. 1964. _The Mare's Nest: The Secret
> Weapons of the Third Reich_. William Kimber Ltd,
> London.
> 
> http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/MaresNest/


		
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