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

By: Neal Bascomb
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
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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.

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.

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 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.

©2016 Neal Bascomb (P)2016 Neal Bascomb Europe Germany Military Military Science Scandinavia Weapons & Warfare War Espionage
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I had to listen to this on 1.3x speed for it to be enjoyable. After doing that and getting used to the narrator it’s a really good story. Well recommend.

Great story, narrator not so great.

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If you could sum up The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb in three words, what would they be?

what a story

What did you like best about this story?

what the soldiers went through

What about Chris Sorensen’s performance did you like?

initially nothing but I eventually got used to his voice

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Any additional comments?

recommended

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A fantastic book that highlights the effectiveness of the Norwegian resistance. A resistance many times more successful, brave and committed than anything the age French often lay claim to. With little veracity. The Norse commitment to their freedom is much under publicised, but this book goes some way to correcting that.

A WW2 Classic

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