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“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 “Neal Bascomb’s The Winter Fortress is 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? Writing with great verve and historical acumen, Bascomb hits the mark of excellence. Highly recommended!” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times best-selling author of The Great Deluge and Cronkite “What would have happened if Hitler had managed to develop nuclear weapons? 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, New York Times best-selling 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 of 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, best-selling author of First Seals and Washington’s Immortals “This well-told and deeply researched account sheds light on an aspect of World War II that is little known or remembered, creating a valuable history that will be beneficial for most collections.” —Library Journal​ “An exciting, thorough account . . . Featuring excellent characterization and exquisite detail concerning a theater of the war (Norway) not well-mined, this will make a terrific addition to World War II collections.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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About the Author
NEAL BASCOMB is the New York Times best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann, The Perfect Mile, Higher, and Red Mutiny. He is a former international journalist whose books have won several national awards and been published in over twenty countries.
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Product details
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (May 16, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780544947290
ISBN-13: 978-0544947290
ASIN: 0544947290
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
576 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#44,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
These brave Norwegians (Spec Ops) soldiers and freedom fighters were called upon to do what few of their conventional Allied counterparts, all fighting against the Germans in several fronts, were asked. To knowingly kill their own countrymen, women, and children as collateral damage, for a greater cause, to stop the Germans from building an atomic weapon. It's easy to second guess the somewhat conflicted intelligence as to how far along Hitlers program was to achieving that goal before the Allies. But this was total war against a psychopath and his followers. Any credible intelligence indicating progress and certainly the Nazi's extraordinary interest in the heavy water at Vemork, had to be taken seriously. True heroes in every way, all of them, the resistance, the local supporters, and the British soldiers, even the American bomber crews who took part. Still bittersweet.
During the course of the second world war, both the United States and Germany were trying to develop an atomic bomb. After the Germans captured Norway, they set their sights on the heavy water plant located at Vemork. This plant was the only one in the world that produced heavy water. Professor Leif Tronstad was the designer of the plant. After the German invasion, he fled to Great Britain. He brought with him a wealth of knowledge about the plant and how to infiltrate it. Working with the British, a plan was formed using volunteers to break into the plant and sabotage the heavy water supply.Over the course of two years, many brave British and Norwegians worked to destroy Vemork's plant. One operation, involving British commandos, ended in disaster, while later, a team of Norwegian guerrillas managed to get inside.The efforts to destroy the plant at Vemork was one of the most high-priority efforts of the war. If the Germans managed to keep receiving supplies of heavy water, then the odds were good that they would have been able to build an atomic bomb. The efforts of the British, Norwegians, and the American Eighth Air Force were tasked to make sure this didn't happen."The Winter Fortress" offers an interesting view into the German pursuit of the atomic bomb. Author Neal Bascomb has done a very good job of describing how heavy water was so important to the German efforts as well as the urgency faced by the Allies to destroy the plant. He also describes how the Americans had begun their own atomic bomb program with the Manhattan project. The Vemork mission drastically altered the outcome of the war. Highly recommended.
I bought this book for my dad who is a World War II buff and a very discriminate reader. He prefers history books rather than novels. He said the book is very well researched and well written and gives it 5 stars!! This is the 2nd book he has read by Neal Bascomb, the first being Hunting Eichmann and he has become a huge fan. I just finished reading Hunting Eichmann and would have to agree that Mr Bascomb is a terrific storyteller and a great writer. I ordered another of his books, The Perfect Mile, which is now on it's way. This story is about the Nazi's discovery of "heavy water" produced in Norway, which could help produce an atom bomb. Absolutely riveting. I havent read the book yet but saw a 6 part miniseries on Netflix. My dad is sending the book to me and I cannot wait to read it. A fantastic true story but a supreme writer. A must read!
At the beginning of World War II both the Nazis and the Allies knew that an atomic bomb, if developed by one side or the other,, would quickly and decisively win the war for the first side to get it. With this knowledge, During the war years both sides raced ahead with their research. The Nazis' research was heavily dependent upon a substance called "heavy water." The only viable supply of the substance was a hydro-electric plant located in occupied Norway. The Allies wished to destroy or at least largely incapacitate this plant in order to slow down the Nazi research. The book recounts the various attempts made by the Allies to accomplish this. The attempts, as recounted in the book, were manned for the most part by Norwegian partisans who were trained in England and Scotland and then dropped by parachute into occupied Norway. The Nazis went to great lengths to catch and annihilate the saboteur-partisans as well as any local citizens who aided them in any way. As we all know, the Allies eventually won the race for the bomb, most probably with an assist provided by the efforts of the Norwegian partisans featured in the book. Had the Nazis, instead of the Allies, first developed the atomic bomb the subsequent history of the world would be very different. I found the book to be well-written and very suspenseful. Any World War II buff will be thrilled with it.
Having recently visited the museum in Vemork I wanted to know more. And a search quickly brought up the recently published The Winter Fortress. The allied attempts to take out the heavy water plant at Vemork were many, but none more heroic than the one by a team of Norwegians, trained in Britain, who braved all to sneak into the facility and destroy the heavy water production, without firing a single shot or the loss of any life! Simply astounding.The book reads much like a novel and includes all attempts to stop the production of heavy water for the Germans right up to the final assault which, after deciding to abandon Vemork as a production facility and move all of the heavy water to Germany, resulted in the sinking of the transport ferry to the bottom of one of Norway's deepest lakes.A fantastic story of the courage of the Norwegian resistance to thwart the Nazi war machine at every possible opportunity. A MUST for WWII history fans.
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