The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb

by Neal Bascomb

Book Overview

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 top-secret documents and memoirs of the saboteurs.

In 1942, the Nazis were racing to complete the first atomic bomb. All they needed was a single, incredibly rare ingredient: heavy water, which was produced solely at Norway's Vemork plant. Under threat of death, Vemork's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544947290
• ISBN13: 9780544947290
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining read about the effort in Norway to stop Germany's Nuclear Program in WWII