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Author:

Bascomb, Neal.

Title:

The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's superbomb / Neal Bascomb.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xix, 378 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--Norway.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Norway.
Sabotage--Norway--History--20th century.
Atomic bomb--Germany--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Technology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vermork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of an essential ingredient needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of British Special Ops, a brilliant scientists and refugee Norwegian commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions.

ISBN:

0544368053 (hardcover)
9780544368057 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2015042716

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