Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $10.99, good condition, Sold by JC's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Athol, ID, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Bantam Books.
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Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $20.61, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Warner Books (NY).
Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $21.03, good condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1976 by Warner Books, Inc..
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M. Rosenfeld. Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Author of Fire at Sea and The Gathering Darkness. SUB-TITLE: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Bomb. SYNOPSIS: Why the Nazis Didn't Win! In 1942 the Germans were on the way to developing the atom bomb. If they made it before the Allies, they would certainly go on to conquer the world. To stop them, a desperate attack was launched on their strategic material plant in Norway...a daring commando operation against overwhelming odds-Thomas Gallagher, equally accomplished in fiction and nonfiction, has written for magazines, television, and films. Among his films are The Doctor's Story; Fire at Sea: The Story of the Morro Castle (winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award for nonfiction); The Gathering Darkness (a runner-up for the National Book Award); The Monogamist; Oona O'; and The X-Craft Raid.
Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $21.92, good condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1981 by A Bantam War Book-Bantam Books, Inc..
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Greg Beecham, Tom Beecham, and M. Stephen Bach. Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Specially Illustrated Edition. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. THE TRUE STORY OF THE SECRET MISSION THAT BLASTED HITLER'S DREAM OF AN ATOMIC BOMB. SUB-TITLE: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Bomb. MAPS BY: Alan McKnight. SYNOPSIS: AGAINST IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, AGAINST CERTAIN DEATH-A MIRACLE OF COURAGE. June, 1942. Nazi Germany held the lead in the desperate race for an atomic bomb. With a sufficient quantity of one critical ingredient, the Third Reich could begin production. This is the breathtaking story of the tiny band of Norwegian patriots who gambled their lives and the lives of their loved ones on an impossible long shot-ten brave men who outwitted and outdared the Nazi war machine to destroy the Norsk Hydro plant and its precious supply of heavy water. It is an incredible story of wilderness survival, sabotage and heart-pounding escape. It is the inspiring true story of the most important secret mission launched in World War II. -and-Draws from actual interviews with members of the Gunnerside mission to capture the full drama of their story.; Brings to vivid life the uninhabited, stormswept Hardanger Plateau, where for four long months the saboteurs battled starvation and killing cold.; Reveals the true story of the tragic commando operation that preceded the Gunnerside mission, and the disastrous bombing raid that followed it.; Describes in exciting detail the second sabotage on Lake Tinn, executed in broad daylight right under the noses of the German guards.
Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $24.61, fair condition, Sold by Fables Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Goshen, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Warner Books.
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Fair. Significant shelf storage or usage wear present that does not affect the readability of the book. Water damage present. The pages appear aged but unmarked. Staining on front cover. The binding is intact and all pages are present. Individually inspected by Shadow. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!
Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $25.14, good condition, Sold by Fables Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Goshen, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Warner Books.
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Good. Some shelf storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are intact. The pages appear aged but unmarked. Individually inspected by Shay. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!
Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $13.73, good condition, Sold by Once Upon A Time Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tontitown, AR, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Bantam Books.
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This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.
Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $15.76, fair condition, Sold by BooksRun rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Bantam Books.
Add this copy of Assault in Norway to cart. $38.50, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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Very good in Good jacket. 234, map, index, front DJ flap creased, price sticker on rear DJ. This is an insightful account of the successful 1942 commando raid against the strategic-material (heavy water) plant at Vemork designed to destroy supplies and cripple key production facilities. The German program was set back for months. Thomas Gallagher was a widely published journalist and the author of eight books. His novel The Gathering Darkness was nominated for a National Book Award. Mr. Gallagher was born in Manhattan in 1918. After graduating from Columbia College in 1941, he served in Iran during World War II as a civilian attached to the Army Corps of Engineers. He then shipped out as a seaman on freighters with the merchant marine, where he began to write. His well-received first novel, "The Gathering Darkness" (Bobbs-Merrill, 1952), traced the disintegration of a New York family after it lost its fortune in the stock market crash of 1929. Although he continued to write novels, Mr. Gallagher also turned to nonfiction, producing "Fire at Sea", an investigation of the 1934 fire that destroyed the luxury liner Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast. Mr. Gallagher concluded that rather than being an accident, the fire was set by the ship's sociopathic radio officer. The book won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for nonfiction. Assault in Norway is the classic account of a legendary raid on the Nazi war program. By 1942 Germany had a seemingly insurmountable lead over the Allies in developing an atomic bomb. Contributing to this situation was its access to a crucial ingredient: heavy water, found in great abundance at a fortresslike factory in occupied Norway. Allied hopes of stalling the Nazi nuclear program soon focused on sabotaging the cliffside plant, a suicidal mission. But a team of brave Norwegian exiles, trained in Britain, infiltrated their homeland and, hiding in the wilds, awaited the opportunity to launch one of the war's most daring commando raids. Basing his gripping narrative in large part on interviews with the commandos themselves, Thomas Gallagher recounts in vivid detail the planning and execution of Operation Gunnerside. Assault in Norway recalls the intrigue found in such wartime classics as David Howarth's We Die Alone and The Sledge Patrol, and the mission it recounts inspired the 1965 Hollywood film The Heroes of Telemark. Derived from a Kirkus review: Early in World War II Roosevelt and Churchill became aware that Germany was stockpiling "heavy water" (water with double hydrogen atoms)--a sure sign that an atomic reactor was being built. Heavy water was used to slow down neutron particle bombardment in a uranium 235 pile. Churchill gave word that the world's only heavy-water plant, at Vemork in Nazi-occupied Norway, must be destroyed. The two commando teams assigned to the raid included several Norwegians, but the airdrop missed its chosen landing spot by ten miles in the dead of winter and an arduous survival odyssey began that eventually required scrapping the original plan and devising a new attack. After terrible setbacks, the hydro plant was crippled. But the Germans managed to get it operational again and a year later a new team attacked the problem of sabotaging the heavy water supplies by sinking a ferry carrying all the water back to Germany. The utter determination of the saboteurs in both raids makes for strong readability and adventure. Gallagher writes with great clarity.
