Winter Fortress Bascomb Neal
Winter Fortress Bascomb Neal It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's sole…
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Winter Fortress Bascomb Neal
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's sole supplier of heavy water. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' - essential for their nuclear designs.
For the Allies, Vemork must be destroyed. Under threat of death, its engineers push production into overtime. But how could they reach the plant, high in a mountainous valley?
The answer became the most dramatic commando raid of the war: the British SOE brought together a brilliant scientist and eleven refugee Norwegian commandos, who, with little more than parachutes, skis and tommy guns, would destroy Hitler's nuclear ambitions. Based on exhaustive research and never-before-seen diaries and letters, The Winter Fortress is a compulsively readable narrative about a group of young men who