Buy this book on-line WIGGAN,RICHARD: : OPERATION FRESHMAN: The Rjukan Heavy Water Raid 1942LONDON.WILLIAM KIMBER & CO.,LIMITED,1986. ISBN 071830571X.
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On a winter's night late in 1942 there foundered in the mountains of Southern Norway one of the most vital if not the most vital - missions og the Second World War.
Thirty-four men in two gliders, towed by Halifax bombers,set out to sabotage the heavt water plant at Vermork and so cripple Germany's efforts to be the first to produce an atomic bomb.Both gliders and one of the Halifaxes crashed.The crew of the bomber died instantly,as did the pilots and co-pilots of the gliders.But there were survivors from the gliders,members of the British 1st Airborne Division,Royal
Engineers.
It was the fate of these Royal Engineers that turned this little-known raid,code-named Operation Freshman,into a tale of horror and murder that remained a mystery until
British forces returned to Norway at
the end of the war.The men died as a direct result of a top secret order just issued by Hitler and, then unknown to the British,aimed at
curbing damaging commando raids.
Richard Wiggan tells how Operation Freshman was conceived and planned in a desperate race aginst time and of the difficulties to be overcome.
His in-depth research into the operation included access to war crimes trial records not yet open to
the general public.He presents a detailed account which includes Norwegian involvement in Freshman, both in the operation itself and in aiding the survivors.The book also describes the subsequent successful raid on Vermork by Special Operations Executive Norwegian agents. This edition is now out-of-print as
the publisher ceased trading in the late 1980's.
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