The thrilling story of how SOE-trained commandos destroyed the Nazis' nuclear-weapons programme in one of the most daring - and successful - raids of World War II.
The thrilling story of how SOE-trained commandos destroyed the Nazis' nuclear weapon programme in 1942, with little more than parachutes, skis and tommy guns. Based on exhaustive research and never-seen-before diaries.
At times
The Winter Fortress reads with the pace of a thriller ? what emerges most strongly is the admiration for the valour of the ordinary soldiers'
The Spectator.
