Egon Larsen

Egon Larsen (13 July 1904 - 17 October 1990) was a German science journalist and writer.

Larsen, born in Munich, authored numerous books. Facing persecution under Nazism, he relocated to Prague and later to London in 1938. ^{[1] [2]}

Publications

• Men Who Changed The World Stories of Invention and Discovery (1952)
• Men Under the Sea (1955)
• You'll See: Report from the Future (1957)
• Atomic Energy: A Layman's Guide to the Nuclear Age (1958)
• Ideas and Invention (1960)
• The Cavendish Laboratory: Nursery of Genius (1962)
• Atoms and Atomic Energy (1963)
• Men Who Fought for Freedom (1963)
• Inventors (1965)
• The Deceivers: Lives of the Great Imposters (1966)
• Great Humorous Stories of the World (1967)
• First with the Truth: Newspapermen in Action (1968)
• A History of Inventions (1969)
• Great Ideas in Engineering (1970)
• Strange Sects and Cults: A Study of Their Origins and Influence (1972)
• Weimar Eyewitness (1976)
• New Sources of Energy and Power (1976)
• Telecommunications: A History (1977)
• A Flame in Barbed Wire: The Story of Amnesty International (1978)
• Wit as a Weapon: The Political Joke in History (1980)

References

1. McRae, Kenneth D. (2014). Nuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II. Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN   978-0-19-968718-3
2. Silverman, Jerry. (2002). The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art). Syracuse University Press. p. 204. ISBN   0-8156-0708-3