Blood and Water: Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb

This is a story of courage, perseverance & heroism--the story of one of the most daring & sustained campaigns of WWII: the top-secret Allied effort to keep Hitler, whose scientists had discovered fission in 1938, from making the atomic bomb. This gripping saga recreates four attempts undertaken to destroy a hydroelectric plant in a remote, mountainous region of southern Norway. Commandeered by the Nazis in the spring of 1941, Norsk Hydro plant was the world's largest producer of deuterium oxide, or heavy water, a vital ingredient in the construction of the bomb. Pieced together from survivors' accounts in Norway & other primary sources, including the military archives of three countries, this is the story of the clandestine two-year ordeal, told in dramatic heart-stopping detail by Dan Kurzman, author of several best-selling nonfiction thrillers about WWII.