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May 17, 2017
Today's Featured Title and Contest
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Thursday, May 18th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE WINTER FORTRESS: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest:
THE WINTER FORTRESS: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of HUNTING EICHMANN and THE PERFECT MILE, THE WINTER FORTRESS is an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.
It’s 1942, and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway’s Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork’s engineers push production into overdrive.
For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth?
Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, THE WINTER FORTRESS is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for one’s country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb --- and alter the course of the war.
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Click here to enter the contest
by 11:59am ET on Thursday, May 18th.
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