Book Discussion

The Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb - In 1942, the Nazis were racing to complete the first atomic bomb. All they needed was a single, incredibly rare ingredient: heavy water, which was produced solely at Norway’s Vemork plant. Under threat of death, Vemork’s engineers pushed production into overdrive. If the Allies could not destroy the plant, the Nazis would soon be in possession of the most dangerous weapon the world had ever seen. But how would they reach the castle fortress, set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on earth?   

In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldiers captures a German spy and makes an astonishing find, his briefcase is empty but for the photos of beautiful white horses that have been stolen and kept on a secret farm behind enemy lines. 

Hitler has stockpiled the world’s finest purebreds in order to breed the perfect military machine—an equine master race. But with the starving Russian army closing in, the animals are in imminent danger of being slaughtered for food.