Bibliograph

The winter fortress, the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb, Neal Bascomb

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The winter fortress, the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb, Neal Bascomb

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The winter fortress

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

931861386

Responsibility statement

Neal Bascomb

Sub title

the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb

Summary

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author ofHunting EichmannandThe Perfect Mile,an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. Its 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norways Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemorks engineers push production into overdrive. For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth? Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for ones country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomband alter the course of the war.

Table Of Contents

The water -- The professor -- Bonzo -- The dam-keeper's son -- The open road -- The commando order -- Make a good job of it -- Keen as mustard -- An uncertain fate -- The lost -- The lost -- Those louts won't catch us -- Rules of the hunter -- The lonely dark war -- The storm -- Best laid plans -- The climb -- Sabotage -- The most splendid coup -- The hunt -- The phantoms of the Vidda -- A national sport -- The target list -- The cowboy run -- Nothing without sacrifice -- Five kilos of fish -- The man with the violin -- A 10:45 a.m. alarm -- Victory

Target audience

adult

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