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

"Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vemork 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 scientist and refugee Norwegian commandos that foi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bascomb, Neal (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
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)
Atomic bomb.
Commando troops.
Sabotage.
Technology.
Underground movements, War.
Germany.
Norway.
1900-1999
History.
Table of 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 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
  • 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.