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The Winter Fortress
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb | Neal Bascomb
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. Its 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 Norways Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemorks engineers push production into overdrive. 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? Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for ones country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomband alter the course of the war.
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Texreader
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This looks so good but I‘ll probably want to get the IRL book.

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Aims42
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Home from my vacation in beautiful Door County, WI 🍒🧀🥨☀️🇸🇪 🍒🧀🥨☀️🇸🇪 🍒🧀🥨☀️🇸🇪
Bags are unpacked, laundry is started, wine has been poured and a new book has been started. Time for another glass because if I can‘t still be vacationing, at least I can be buzzed while watching the Iowa vs Iowa State game🤣 Go 🌪🌪🌪🌪

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Adding a bit of history to my summer reading #WWII #history #grandrapids #mi

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If you want to be transported to a life and death struggle on the snowy, unforgiving Vidda with a ragtag band of Norwegian resistance members as they try to stop Nazi production of a crucial element for the making of The Bomb then this is a read for you. Bascomb keeps this nonfiction story moving with all of the action of a great thriller. Highly recommended (Pistachio also approves!) #WW2 #Norway #Action #CatsofLitsy @hmhbooks

MrBook Nice review! 😻😻😻 8y
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Taking a reading break as I have a cat on my lap #catsoflitsy #booktober @hmhbooks

bookfrivolity The very serious condition of Cat-On-Lap-Paralysis... Hehehe 8y
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A drizzly Sunday morning in this sleepy Delaware River town and I am cozy with my book and coffee! #booktober #coffee @hmhbooks

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Reading this new offering from Neal Bascomb while heading into work with my homemade pumpkin spice coffee #commuting #pumpkinspice #WW2 @hmhbooks