The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb / Neal Bascomb.
The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb / Neal Bascomb.
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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G 2016/2448
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English
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Physical content
xix, 378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The water -- The professor -- Bonzo -- The dam-keeper's son -- Open road -- Commando order -- Make a good job -- 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 clim...
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2016]
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"Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of an essential ingredient needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of British Special Ops, a brilliant scientist and refugee Norwegian commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions, "--NoveList.
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 lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemor...
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The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb / Neal Bascomb.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index.
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G 2016/2448
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74VKVd8NwEVA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVd8NwEVA
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ISBN
0544368053 (hardcover)
9780544368057 (hardcover)
DDC
940.5486481094828
MMS ID
991024002615902626
