... of London on the Salisbury Plain. The thirty-six-year-old had a trim mustache and a face hardened by his war experiences in France. Inside the hut were men from two field companies of the Royal Engineers. Before they'd enlisted, ...
Skis Against the Atom
The Telemark Raid: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Bomb
Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.
The story of how a desperate clandestine mission in Norway ended the Nazi dream of building the atomic bomb.
Fully illustrated with stunning new commissioned artwork, this is the thrilling story of the daring Norwegian-led SOE raid that prevented Hitler from building an atomic bomb.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “The cumulative effect is hypnotic.
After witnessing a murder in Olso, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman Sheldon Horowitz flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.
[Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations.
This book describes the events of this tumultuous campaign of World War II (1939-1945) that not only led to Winston Churchill's appointment as British Prime Minister, but also saw the crippling of the German Kriegsmarine as a fighting force ...