Name: The Winter Fortress
ISBN: 9780544368057

Neal Bascomb

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of "Hunting Eichmann"and "The Perfect Mile, "a World War II spy adventure set in Norway that draws on firsthand interviews and memoirs of the saboteurs"

The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Superbomb

The Winter Fortress

Belle

I found this a bit of a slog in the beginning and nearly gave up several times, so 4 stars feel a bit too high a review, but I liked the story once I got into it, more than I liked books I've rated 3 stars. It was hard to follow who everyone was, especially in the beginning, and I often felt there was more detail than necessary, but it was still a good story overall.

rob suttman

It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' – essential for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's sole supplier of heavy water. Under threat of death, its engineers push production into overtime. For the Allies, Vemork must be destroyed. 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 survived the cold of a Norwegian winter and evaded the clutches of the Gestapo, to save the world from destruction.

The Winter Fortress The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Superbomb

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