by Neal Bascomb
PERSONAL PAPERS
Leif Tronstad (courtesy of Leif Tronstad Jr.)
Knut Haugland (courtesy of Trond, Torfinn, and Torill Haugland)
Einar Skinnarland (courtesy of Marielle and Kirvil Skinnarland)
Jens-Anton Poulsson (courtesy of Mia and Unni Poulsson)
Knut Haukelid (courtesy of Bjørgulf, Kirvil, and Knut Haukelid)
David Irving (courtesy of British Online Archives)
Rolf Sørlie (courtesy of Finn Sørlie)
Bjørn Iversen
INTERVIEWS
Tronstad Family (Oslo)
Haugland Family (Oslo, Rjukan)
Haukelid Family (Oslo)
Poulsson Family (Oslo)
Skinnarland Family (Oslo, Rjukan, United States)
Finn Sørlie (Oslo)
Ragnar Ulstein (United States)
Svein Vetle Trae (Oslo)
Lillian Gabrielson (Oslo)
NORWEGIAN- AND GERMAN-LANGUAGE BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Andersen, Ketil. Hydros historie 1905–1945. Bind 1, Flaggskip i fremmed eie: Hydro 1905–1945. Oslo: Pax Forlag, 2005.
Bagge, Erich, Kurt Diebner, and Kenneth Jay. Von der Uranspaltung bis Calder Hall. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1957.
Berg, John. Soldaten som ikke ville gi seg: Lingekaren Arne Kjelstrup, 1940–45. Oslo: Metope, 1986.
Bergfald, Odd. Hellmuth Reinhard: Soldat eller morder? Oslo: Schibsted, 1967.
Bøhn, Per. IMI: Norsk innsats i kampen om atomkraften. Trondheim: F. Bruns Bokhandels Forlag, 1946.
Brauteset, Steinar. Gestapo-offiseren Fehmer: Milorgs farligste fiende. Oslo: Cappelen, 1986.
Brun, Jomar. Brennpunkt Vemork, 1940–1945. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1985.
Dahl, Helge. Rjukan. Bind 2, Fra 1920 til 1980. Rjukan: Tinn kommune, 1983.
Drew, Ion et al. Tause helter: Operasjon Freshman og andre falne. Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway: Hertervig Akademisk, 2011.
Fjeldbu, Sigmund. Et lite sted på verdenskartet—Rjukan 1940–1950. Oslo: Tiden, 1980.
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Jensen, Erling. Kompani Linge. Bind 1. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1949.
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Kjelstadli, Sverre. Hjemmestyrkene. Oslo: Bokstav & Bilde, 1959.
Larsen, Stein, Beatrice Sandberg, and Volker Dahm, eds. Meldungen aus Norwegen, 1940–1945: Die geheimen Lageberichte des Befehishabers der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Norwegen. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008.
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Lunde, Kjell Harald. Sabotøren: Et portrett av mennesket og krigshelten Fredrik Kayser. Bergen, Norway: Alma Mater, 1997.
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Nagel, Günter. Atomversuche in Deutschland: Geheime Uranarbeiten in Gottow, Oranienburg, und Stadtilm. Zella-Mehlis, Germany: Heinrich-Jung-Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002.
Njølstad, Olav. Professor Tronstads krig. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2012.
Nøkleby, Berit. Gestapo: Tysk politi i Norge, 1940–45. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2003.
———. Josef Terboven: Hitlers mann i Norge. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1992.
———. “Uforskammet opptreden mot Terboven.” Aftenposten, February 25, 1983.
Olsen, Kristofer Anker. Norsk Hydro gjennom 50 år. Oslo: Norsk Hydro-Elektrisk Kvælstofaktieselskab, 1955.
Ording, Arne, Johnson Gudrun, and Johan Garder. Våre falne, 1939–1945, Annen Bok. Oslo: Grøndahl, 1950.
Payton, Gary, and Trond Lepperød. Rjukanbanen: På sporet av et industrieventyr. Rjukan: Maana Forlag, 1995.
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ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND DOCUMENTARY TRANSCRIPTS
Adamson, Hans Christian, and Per Klem. Blood on the Midnight Sun. New York: Norton, 1964.
Baden-Powell, Dorothy. Operation Jupiter: SOE’s Secret War in Norway. London: Hale, 1982.
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Bennett, John. Letters from England. San Antonio, TX: Hertzog, 1945.
Berglyd, Jostein. Operation Freshman: The Hunt for Hitler’s Heavy Water. Stockholm: Leandoer & Ekholm, 2006.
Bernstein, Jeremy, and David Cassidy. Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall. New York: Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
Beyerchen, Alan. Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977.
Casimir, Hendrik. Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
Cassidy, David C. Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1992.
Churchill, Winston. The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War, 1941. Ed. Martin Gilbert. New York: Norton, 2001.
———. The Hinge of Fate. Vol. 4 of The Second World War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
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Clark, Ronald. The Birth of the Bomb. London: Phoenix House, 1961.
———. Tizard. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965.
Compton, Arthur Holly. Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1956.
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Index
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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
air war/bombing missions
Allies bombing German atomic research facilities, 310, 311
atomic bomb/Japan, 317
blitz, 10, 26–27, 308
Herøya aluminum plant/fertilizer plant (August 1943), 250
high altitude temperatures/oxygen and, 261, 263
“Lucky Bastards Club,” 262–63, 268
nitrate plant, Rjukan/results (November 1943), 267–69, 273
Peenemünde (August 1943), 255
plane name examples, 263–64, 265, 267
Vemork/results (November 1943), 261–62, 263–69, 273
Akers, Wallace, 28, 56, 59
Albrecht, Dr., 251–52
Allen, Alexander, 110, 116, 117, 119
Allier, Jacques
background/description, 3
heavy water/atomic bomb and, 3–5, 14–16, 58
Anderson, Sir John
German atomic program and, 95, 222, 258, 259, 260