It is one of the great ‘what ifs?’ of World War II. What would have happened had the Nazis acquired a nuclear weapon? The consequences are unthinkable.
The sabotaging of the Nazi nuclear programme was therefore one of the most important operations of the war.
Operation Gunnerside, as it was known, the destruction of the heavy water plant in Vemork, Norway, is just one of countless covert operations examined in this book about espionage in the country between 1940 and 1945.
