By Thomas Gallagher

“An intriguing and dramatic episode.”―Library Journal

“Cliff-hanging suspense.”―Christian technology Monitor

Assault in Norway is the vintage account of a mythical raid at the Nazi battle application. by way of 1942 Germany had a likely insurmountable lead over the Allies in constructing an atomic bomb. Contributing to this case used to be its entry to an important aspect: “heavy water,” present in nice abundance at a fortresslike manufacturing unit in occupied Norway. Allied hopes of stalling the Nazi nuclear application quickly occupied with sabotaging the cliffside plant―a suicidal undertaking. yet a workforce of courageous Norwegian exiles, informed in Britain, infiltrated their place of birth and, hiding within the wilds, awaited the chance to release one of many war's such a lot bold commando raids.

Basing his gripping narrative largely on interviews with the commandos themselves, Thomas Gallagher recounts in shiny aspect the making plans and execution of Operation Gunnerside. Assault in Norway recollects the intrigue present in such wartime classics as David Howarth's We Die Alone and The Sledge Patrol, and the undertaking it recounts encouraged the 1965 Hollywood movie The Heroes of Telemark.

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The pilot had circled and backtracked so the equipment would not be too far away from where they landed, but the navigator had not found Ugleflott after all. They landed on a mountainside strewn with the kind of boulders and rocks that break knees and legs and cut into flesh even in daylight landings. But they were all well-trained natural athletes, and they knew that, no matter what happened, the important thing was to get free of the parachute as quickly as possible after reaching the ground.

Tronstad, a quick-witted, slender, short-waisted man with long legs, was also a long-distance runner, and loved exercise and action as much as he did science. He became a secret agent after the German occupation of his country and sent a steady flow of industrial information from his base at the institute in Trondheim to British and Norwegian authorities in Great Britain. It was from his friend Jomar Brun, the chief manager of the Vemork plant, that he learned of Germany’s burning interest in the plant’s production of heavy water, and it was from Tronstad that London first learned of it.

German U-boats were threatening ships carrying Lend-Lease war supplies to Britain and Russia. France had fallen, and much of London had been devastated. Plans for the great Normandy invasion were on the drawing board. But at the heart of all other considerations was the burning twofold question: How far ahead of the Allies were the Germans in nuclear research and what could be done to close the gap? Churchill liked the spacious fuselage of the Boeing flying boat, and had enough confidence in chief pilot Captain Kelly Rogers to put in a special request that Rogers be in charge during the flight to the Untied States.

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