Skis Against the Atom by Captain Knut Haukelid

Skis Against the Atom

by Captain Knut Haukelid

William Kimber and Co., 1955, [Second Edition], black and white photographic plates, paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, creasing and a little discolouration to covers, previous owners’ inscription on review page, some foxing and age toning (see photographs)

“Here is a modest and very well-written account of what can, without exaggeration, be called the most successful and significant small scale military operation of modern times.  It is believed by persons able to judge that if the Germans could have kept themselves adequately supplied with heavy water they might easily have produced the atomic bomb before the Allies.  That they ran fatally short of such supplies was solely the result of two attacks led by Captain Haukelid on the German heavy water installations at Rjukan in Norway.”