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Hunting the Nazi Bomb : The Special Forces Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Deadliest Weapon, Paperback / softback Book

Hunting the Nazi Bomb : The Special Forces Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Deadliest Weapon Paperback / softback

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'You couldn't make these stories up: yet they're true, and Lewis does the memory of these extraordinary men full justice in a tale that is both heart-stopping and moving' Evening Standard'Suicidal bravery, untold moral courage and awe-inspiring survival.

An utterly compelling read' Bear GryllsFrom the bestselling author of true military classics ZERO SIX BRAVO, THE NAZI HUNTERS and CHURCHILL'S SECRET WARRIORSIn the Spring of 1940, as Britain reeled from defeats on all fronts and America seemed frozen in isolation, one fear united the British and American leaders like no other: the Nazis had stolen a march on the Allies towards building the atomic bomb.

So began the hunt for Hitler's nuclear weapons - nothing else came close in terms of priorities.

It was to be the most secret war of those wars fought amongst the shadows.

The highest stakes. The greatest odds. Prior to the outbreak of the war the massive German chemicals conglomerate I.G.

Farben - the future manufacturers of Zyklon-B, the gas used in the Nazi concentration camps - had started producing bulk supplies of deuterium oxide - heavy water - at the remote Norwegian plant of Vemork.

This was the central target of three separate missions - Operations GROUSE, FRESHMAN and GUNNERSIDE - over the ensuing four years.

As Churchill commented: 'The actual facts in many cases were equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama.

Tangle with tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party were interwoven in a texture so intricate as to be incredible yet true.'Damien Lewis's new bestseller intercuts the hunt for the scientists, the raw materials and the plant, with the cloak and dagger intelligence game being played in the shadows.

This relied in part on ENIGMA intercepts to guide the SOE's hand.

Lewis delves into some of the most extraordinarily inventive and Machiavellian innovations at the SOE, and their related research and training schools, whereby the enemy were tricked, deceived, framed, blackmailed and double and triple-crossed, all in the name of stopping the Reich from getting the bomb.

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