The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb / Neal Bascomb.
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- Great Britain. Special Operations Executive -- History
- 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 -- Campaigns -- Norway -- Vemork
- D794.5 .B373 2016
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D794.5 .B373 2016 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000021483 |
Browsing UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات shelves, Shelving location: General Collection | المجموعات العامة إغلاق مستعرض الرف(يخفي مستعرض الرف)
D794 D87 2002 Commando : memoirs of a fighting commando in World War Two / | D794 D87 2002 Commando : memoirs of a fighting commando in World War Two / | D794 D87 2002 Commando : memoirs of a fighting commando in World War Two / | D794.5 .B373 2016 The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb / | D794.5 .B67 1995 Sea devils : Italian navy commandos in World War II | D794.5 .D38 2019 The Force : The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission Impossible / | D794.5 .D38 2019 The Force : The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission Impossible / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index.
The water -- The professor -- Bonzo -- The dam-keeper's son -- The open road -- 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 lonely, dark war -- The storm -- Best-laid plans -- The climb -- Sabotage -- The most splendid coup -- The hunt -- Phantoms of the Vidda -- A national sport -- The target list -- Cowboy run -- Nothing without sacrifice -- Five kilos of fish -- The man with the violin -- A 10:45 a.m. alarm -- Victory.
"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 foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions,"--NoveList.
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? Enter Leif Tronstad. a brilliant Norwegian scientist who narrowly escaped his country to bring word to the Allies of the plant's importance--and how to infiltrate it. Together with the British Special Operations Executive ("the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"), Tronstad recruits a disparate band of patriots and plans a mission that many believe impossible. Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, this is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skis, 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.--Dust jacket.