{"product_id":"9780099581642","title":"Serving the Reich","description":"Author: Ball, Philip\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099581642\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Dec 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn incisive and revealing exploration of the fate of physics under the Nazis - and how scientific idealism led to accommodation with a totalitarian regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eServing the Reich\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', many others made compromises and concessions as they continued to work under the Nazi regime. Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the war most scientists in Germany maintained they had been apolitical or even resisted the regime- Debye claimed that he had gone to America in 1940 to escape Nazi interference in his research; Heisenberg and others argued that they had deliberately delayed production of the atomic bomb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a gripping exploration of moral choices under a totalitarian regime, here are human dilemmas, failures to take responsibility and three lives caught between the idealistic goals of science and a tyrannical ideology.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47421818110110,"sku":"UBD-9780099581642","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780099581642.jpg?v=1780548702","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780099581642","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}