Title The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb / Neal Bascomb.

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

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Description	xix, 378 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-365) 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 instructor -- 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.
Summary	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.
Subject	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) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	Atomic bomb. (OCoLC)fst00820568
	Commando troops. (OCoLC)fst00869242
	Sabotage. (OCoLC)fst01102999
	Technology. (OCoLC)fst01145078
	Underground movements, War. (OCoLC)fst01355184
	Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
	Norway. (OCoLC)fst01204556
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Bascomb, Neal. Winter fortress. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 9780544368064 (DLC) 2015048287
ISBN	9780544368057 (hardcover) : $28.00
	0544368053 (hardcover)

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