The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb

<b>From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of <i>Hunting Eichmann</i> and <i>The Perfect Mile</i>, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.</b><br> <br> 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, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive.<br> <br> For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth?<br> <br> Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, <i>The Winter Fortress</i> is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for one's country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb - and alter the course of the war.