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

4.0

“The Winter Fortress” tells the story of the oft-dubbed heroes of Telemark. 1942, enabled by the British RAF and several secret organizations, nine Norwegian saboteurs committed the first of several destructive defense acts to limit the German production and usage of heavy water in Norway. Over the coming years, several additional attacks continued the effort, slowing the production efforts for a German atomic bomb during WWII. Neal Bascomb manages to tell this tale with engaging excitement and homage to the story’s many heroes without compromising the sanctity of the facts for authorial interjection.