Het is 1942. De nazi's maken haast met de ontwikkeling van een atoombom. Ze hebben er de natuurkundigen voor, maar wat ze niet hebben is genoeg zwaar water, een noodzakelijk bestanddeel van hun nucleaire plannen. Maar ze houden Noorwegen al twee jaar bezet en daarmee de Vemork-waterkrachtcentrale, een reusachtig industrieel complex dat aan de rand van een kloof ligt. Vemork is wereldwijd de enige leverancier van zwaar water. De geallieerden weten één ding zeker: Vemork moet vernietigd worden. De Britse Special Operations Executive brengt een geniale wetenschapper en elf gevluchte Noorse commando's bij elkaar, die met weinig meer dan parachutes, ski's en machinepistolen Hitlers plannen voor een atoombom moeten saboteren. De wintervesting is gebaseerd op uitgebreid onderzoek en nog niet eerder in de openbaarheid gebrachte dagboeken en brieven van de saboteurs zelf. Bascomb heeft een meeslepend en toegankelijk verhaal geschreven over een groep jongemannen die tot het uiterste moesten gaan om de wereld van de vernietiging te redden.

De wintervesting

New York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb's Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two American POW camps, his retreat into the mountains and out of Europe, and his path to an anonymous life in Buenos Aires, his pursuers are a bulldog West German prosecutor, a blind Argentinean Jew and his beautiful daughter, and a budding, ragtag spy agency called the Mossad, whose operatives have their own scores to settle (and whose rare surveillance photographs are published here for the first time). The capture of Eichmann and the efforts by Israeli agents to secret him out of Argentina to stand trial is the stunning conclusion to this thrilling historical account, told with the kind of pulse-pounding detail that rivals anything you'd find in great spy fiction. "A fantastic true spy story."—Associated Press

Hunting Eichmann

In 1905 more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutinied against their officers aboard the battleship Potemkin, one of the most powerful battleships in the world. Led by the charismatic firebrand Matyushenko, they risked their lives to take control of their ship and fly the red flag of revolution. What followed was a violent port-to-port chase that spanned eleven harrowing days and came to symbolize the Russian Revolution itself. This pulse-pounding story alternates between the opulent court of Nicholas II and the drama on the high seas. Neal Bascomb combines extensive research and fresh information from Soviet archives to tell the true story of the deadliest naval mutiny in history. Red Mutiny is a terrific adventure filled with epic naval battles, heroic sacrifices, treachery, bloodlust, and the rallying cries of freedom.

Red Mutiny

This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past. In the spirit of the Roaring Twenties, two men competed to erect a structure that would reach to the skies. Behind it all were two brilliant architects-men with a common past, but very different visions for the future. Higher is every bit as fascinating as the best fiction.

Higher

The inspirational story of three international runners attempting to achieve what no one had managed—to break the four-minute mile barrier. It was the ultimate test of endurance, and the human drama that unfolded is told here for the first time. In sport, running the four-minute mile was the elusive Holy Grail, considered by most to be beyond the limits of human endeavour. Then in late 1952, shortly after the Helsinki Olympics, three men set out to challenge the record books: Roger Bannister, the Oxford medical student, the great British hero who epitomized the ideal of the amateur athlete; John Landy, the tireless Australian, the romantic who trained night and day in search of perfection; and the American Wes Santee, son of a Kansas ranch hand, a natural runner and the quickest of the three ('I was just born to run fast'). Three men, each of contrasting character, competing thousands of miles apart, but all with the same valedictory goal. The Perfect Mile is the stirring account of their quest for sporting martyrdom, charting their journey through triumph and failure, culminating in the moment when Bannister broke the record in a monumental run at the Iffley Road cinder track in Oxford in May 1954. It was a feat that became one of the most celebrated in the history of British sport. Far from bringing an end to the rivalry, this watershed moment turned out to be merely the prelude to a final climactic battle three months later—the ultimate head-to-head between Bannister and Landy in what was dubbed ‘the mile of the century’ at the Vancouver Empire Games. Bascomb provides a fascinating account of what happened and an invaluable insight into the motivations and characters of three amazing achievers. This audiobook includes an interview with the author.

The Perfect Mile

For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing. They were the unlikeliest of heroes. René Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international race car circuit, had been banned from the best teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles Weiffenbach, head of the down-on-its-luck automaker Delahaye, was desperately trying to save his company as the world teetered at the brink. And Lucy Schell, the adventurous daughter of an American multi-millionaire, yearned to reclaim the glory of her rally-driving days. As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, these three misfits banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the apex of motorsport: the Grand Prix. Their quest for redemption culminated in a remarkable race that is still talked about in racing circles to this day—but which, soon after it ended, Hitler attempted to completely erase from history. Bringing to life this glamorous era and the sport that defined it, Faster chronicles one of the most inspiring, death-defying upsets of all time: a symbolic blow against the Nazis during history’s darkest hour.

Faster

Hyytävä tositarina maailman pahamaineisimman natsirikollisen metsästyksestä. Vuonna 1945, kun liittoutuneet valtasivat Berliinin, Adolf Eichmann, natsien keskitysleirien operatiivinen johtaja, riisui SS-univormunsa ja katosi. Maailman etsityimmän natsirikollisen metsästyksestä muodostui trillerimäinen takaa-ajo, joka kesti vuosia ja johti läpi Euroopan sodanjälkeisen jälleenrakentamistyön aina Atlantin toiselle puolelle asti, Etelä-Amerikkaan. Tähtäimessä Eichmann on hurja tositarina pahamaineisen sotarikollisen takaa-ajosta.

Tähtäimessä Eichmann

Koukuttava tositarina toisen maailmansodan suurimmasta sabotaasista. Vuonna 1942 natsit halusivat saada valmiiksi ensimmäisen atomipommin. Heiltä puuttui enää yksi ainesosa: raskas vesi, jota valmistettiin ainoastaan Norjassa huippusalaisella Vemorkin tehtaalla. Vermokissa tehtiin töitä yötä päivää kuolemanrangaistuksen uhalla, ja sodan kriittiset hetket olivat käsillä. Liittoutuneille tehtaan tuhoaminen oli elämän ja kuoleman kysymys. Mutta miten löytää salattu tuotantolaitos, joka kätkeytyy vaikeakulkuiseen erämaahan? Ja miten tuhotaan tehdas, joka on kuin läpipääsemätön linnoitus jyrkän rotkon reunalla? Talvilinnake on henkeäsalpaava tositarina hiihtävistä vakoojista, nerokkaasta tiedemiehestä, Gestapon ajojahdista ja viime hetken operaatiosta, jonka onnistumisesta riippui koko sodan lopputulos.

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»Neal Bascombs bok Operation tungt vatten är något så ovanligt som en noggrant efterforskad fackbok som mest liknar en välskriven spänningsroman … Bascomb lyckas fantastiskt bra. Med hjälp av rapporter, dagböcker och intervjuer skildrar han närgånget och personligt de ibland extrema umbäranden som sabotörerna uthärdade … en både spännande och läsvärd bok, som även passar läsare utan större militärhistoriskt intresse.« Tidningen Militär Historia 1942 fruktar de allierade det värsta: Nazityskland håller på att bygga en egen atombomb. Det enda som saknas är tillräckligt stora mängder tungt vatten för att skapa en fungerande kärnreaktor. För att stoppa tyskarna måste den enda anläggningen som tillverkar tungt vatten förstöras — Norsk Hydros fabrik i det tyskockuperade Norge. Operation tungt vatten är den bästsäljande författaren Neal Bascombs skildring av händelserna som kulminerade i nio norska kommandosoldaters attack på den avlägset belägna tungvattenfabriken och deras dramatiska flykt till Sverige efteråt. Den militära operationen som satte stopp för Nazitysklands kärnvapenprogram hör till en av de mest spektakulära händelserna under andra världskriget. Med hjälp av aldrig tidigare publicerade brev och dokument har Neal Bascomb åstadkommit en thrilleraktig skildring av det mytomspunna händelseförloppet.

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