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

4.0

The Winter Fortress is a truly compelling work of history, telling a fascinating story with strong narrative drive. Despite that narrative drive, Neal Bascomb manages to incorporate enough cultural and scientific background to make his book accessible to readers without much prior knowledge of Norway or of atomic physics - quite an accomplishment on the part of the author! There's a great deal of heroism profiled in these pages, and altogether The Winter Fortress is a grand tale of ordinary people meeting great challenges under extremely difficult circumstances.