Summary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEABascomb, Neal
Summary: April 9, 1940. The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping up a silent fjord. Soon planes full of paratroopers roar over the mountains, and in two months, the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They cripple food supplies to the Norwegian people. And at the Vemork power plant, they gain access to an essential ingredient in the weapon that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.54 BASGross, Andrew
Summary: Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée, his outfit whittled to shreds, he commandeers a coastal steamer and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis's progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There, he joins a team of dedicated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GROHollway, Don
Summary: "The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering opulence of the Byzantine empire and then finally to a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARALD III HOLSummary: Tells the saga of the ill-fated 1928 Arctic expedition headed by Italian Unberto Nobile. After the crash of their dirigible, Italia, the survivors huddle in their makeshift red canvas dwelling, desperately sending out S.O.S. signals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REDBoine, Mari
Contents: Amame jávkat = So we don't fade -- Alit alihastá aliha = Blue shines the blue -- Don oidnet mu sielu = You saw my soul -- Elle -- Činadan gahpiriin = My head holds high the horned hat -- Eadnán bákti = To woman -- If tomorrow's mine -- Mihá = I stand tall -- Jearrat bickkas = To ask the wind -- Leat go don dies = Will you be there -- Mu oappá niegus = In my sister's dream.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023