An extraordinarily rich biography, superbly researched and written with impressive clarity.
The Times
You don't need to know your quantum physics to be gripped by Monk's doorstop study of the momentous life of J Robert Oppenheimer… Monk serves his subject well by sparing us neither the worst nor the best in him.
Ed Caesar, Sunday Times
Superlative.
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
An extraordinarily rich biography, superbly researched and written with impressive clarity.
The Times
You don't need to know your quantum physics to be gripped by Monk's doorstop study of the momentous life of J Robert Oppenheimer… Monk serves his subject well by sparing us neither the worst nor the best in him.
Ed Caesar, Sunday Times
Superlative.
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
An extraordinarily rich biography, superbly researched and written with impressive clarity.
The Times
You don't need to know your quantum physics to be gripped by Monk's doorstop study of the momentous life of J Robert Oppenheimer… Monk serves his subject well by sparing us neither the worst nor the best in him.
In this condensed extract of the Oppenheimer biography, Inside the Centre, Ray Monk describes how the Los Alamos scientists responded to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
