A review by pearl35
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb

3.0

This is a reconstruction of the SOE mission to sabotage the HydroNorsk plant in Vemork, Norway, to prevent the Nazis from acquiring heavy water. This is a gripping story, as the team of resistance agents escape Norway, get training in Britain and are dispatched back (several groups of them disastrously into the hands of the occupying SS) to undertake a brutal ski assault on a remote industrial compound, expected to be a one-way trip. Unfortunately, this is written for a popular audience, so all the work in Norwegian and declassified SOE papers is obscured with the sloppy citations in the back and no weighing of the primary material at all.