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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784977047 ISBN 13: 9781784977047

Publisher: Head Of Zeus, 1703

Synopsis

Winter Fortress

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From the Back Cover:

“Weaving together his typically intense research and a riveting narrative, Neal Bascomb’s The Winter Fortress is a spellbinding piece of historical writing.”
 ­— Martin Dugard, author of Into Africa and coauthor of the Killing series

“A riveting, high-action World War II thriller with nothing less than the fate of planet Earth on the line. Just imagine the horror if Hitler had gotten the atomic bomb? Written with great verve and historical acumen, Bascomb hits the mark of excellence. Highly recommended!”
— Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge and Cronkite

“In The Winter Fortress, Neal Bascomb brilliantly tells the extraordinary true story of arguably the most important and daring commando raid of World War II: how an amazing band of men on skis made sure Hitler never got to drop the ultimate bomb.”    
— Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter   

“Brilliantly written, The Winter Fortress cinematically captures a commando team’s efforts to destroy one of the most important secret facilities in World War II. Bascomb’s riveting prose puts the reader into one of the more daring missions of the war and the Allies’ efforts to sabotage a crucial aspect of Germany’s nuclear program. An excellent read.”
 — Patrick K. O’Donnell, author of First SEALs and Washington’s Immortals
 
“Exciting, thorough . . . suspenseful . . . Featuring excellent characterization and exquisite detail concerning a theater of the war (Norway) not well-mined.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 

From the Inside Flap:

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II
 
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. Now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced at 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?
 
Based on a trove of top-secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, 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—and alter the course of the war.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Head Of Zeus
• Publication date: 1703
• ISBN 10: 1784977047
• ISBN 13: 9781784977047
• Binding: Hardcover