The Winter Fortress
The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Superbomb
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile , an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.
It's 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 Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's 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 one's country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb--and alter the course of the war.
It's 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 Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's 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 one's country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb--and alter the course of the war.
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 lonelydark 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.
Subjects:
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.
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.
ISBN:
9780544368057
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War WWII Bas | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY War WWII Bas | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-365) and index.