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Venus Development
Out of Darkness into Danger
At first the group of the world's most eminent scientists had just a few vague hints why they had been gathered in this vast secret underground complex. Even their leader, the great maverick astronomer Eric Mann, and the woman he loved, beautiful and brilliant atomic specialist Paula Micklewhite, had been kept in the dark.
All they knew was that they were virtual prisoners of the political and financial rulers of earth. All they knew was that they had been pressed into service to complete a rush project of unimaginable importance. And only gradually did they realize the golden opportunity that would be theirs if they dared seize the reins of power from their self-appointed masters and take control of mankind's mind-boggling leap into space....
At first the group of the world's most eminent scientists had just a few vague hints why they had been gathered in this vast secret underground complex. Even their leader, the great maverick astronomer Eric Mann, and the woman he loved, beautiful and brilliant atomic specialist Paula Micklewhite, had been kept in the dark.
All they knew was that they were virtual prisoners of the political and financial rulers of earth. All they knew was that they had been pressed into service to complete a rush project of unimaginable importance. And only gradually did they realize the golden opportunity that would be theirs if they dared seize the reins of power from their self-appointed masters and take control of mankind's mind-boggling leap into space....
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
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David Bergamini
49 books3 followersDavid Howland Bergamini was an American author who wrote books on 20th-century history and popular science, notably mathematics.
Bergamini was interned as an Allied civilian in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines with his mother Clara Dorothea Bergamini (born Hawke), father John Van Wie Bergamini, an architect who worked for the American Episcopal Mission in China, Japan, the Philippines and Africa), and younger sister for the duration of World War II.
From 1949 to 1951 Bergamini studied at Merton College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1951 he joined Time as a reporter; in 1961 he was appointed Assistant Editor of Life magazine.
According to Professor Charles Sheldon of the University of Cambridge, his 1971 book on Japan's Imperial Conspiracy "is a polemic which, to our knowledge, contradicts all previous scholarly work.... Specialists on Japan have unanimously demolished Bergamini's thesis and his pretensions to careful scholarship.
Primary source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B...
Bergamini was interned as an Allied civilian in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines with his mother Clara Dorothea Bergamini (born Hawke), father John Van Wie Bergamini, an architect who worked for the American Episcopal Mission in China, Japan, the Philippines and Africa), and younger sister for the duration of World War II.
From 1949 to 1951 Bergamini studied at Merton College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1951 he joined Time as a reporter; in 1961 he was appointed Assistant Editor of Life magazine.
According to Professor Charles Sheldon of the University of Cambridge, his 1971 book on Japan's Imperial Conspiracy "is a polemic which, to our knowledge, contradicts all previous scholarly work.... Specialists on Japan have unanimously demolished Bergamini's thesis and his pretensions to careful scholarship.
Primary source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B...
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