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 , 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, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544368053
• ISBN13: 9780544368057
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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