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

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Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vermork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of the heavy water needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of spies and commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions.

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Sabotage Norway History 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 Commando operations Norway

World War, 1939-1945 Germany Technology

World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Norway

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ISBN:

9780544368057
0544368053

Description:

xix, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Map on lining papers
Includes bibliographical references and index

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 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
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

LCCN:

2015042716

Control Number:

1603673

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