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

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...

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Main Author: Bascomb, Neal (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Edition:First Mariner books edition.
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.
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Table of Contents:
  • The water
  • The professor
  • Bonzo
  • The dam-keeper's son
  • Open road
  • Commando order
  • Make a good job
  • Keen as mustard
  • An uncertain fate
  • The lost
  • The instructor
  • 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
  • Phantoms of the Vidda
  • A national sport
  • Target list
  • Cowboy run
  • Nothing without sacrifice
  • Five kilos of fish
  • The man with the violin
  • A 10:45 alarm
  • Victory.

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