Thomas Gallagher is the author of “Assault in Norway”, a nonfiction novel of the legendary raid on Nazi nuclear program in Norway during the Second World War. In the large picture, Thomas Gallagher wrote the book to recognize the soldiers that conducted this decisive strategic mission resulted in delaying the Nazi research for a nuclear bomb. Gallagher was a prizewinning author, and in “Assault in Norway” he tells a narrative, chronological story of this difficult and challenging special operation. He collected material from first-hand sources in his search for why and how these brave men succeeded. Thomas Gallagher (1918-1992) published as an author eight books. He graduated from Columbia College in 194 and served as a civilian attached to the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. In 1959, he got the Edgar Allan Poe Award for nonfiction for his “Story of the Monro Castle”. For writing the book Gallagher interviews people with first-hand experiences, and he uses original reports from Norwegian, British, Canadian and German sources. It is possible to criticize Gallagher for not recognizing work by other authors published several years before his book. Especially one of his named sources and a participant in the operation, Knut Haukelid, who published a book about his …show more content…
Even General von Falkenhorst, Germany´s supreme military commander in Norway called the sabotage “the finest coup I have seen in this war”. The book is written chronologically in time and starts with the first chapter emphasizing the high degree of importance of the mission on a political and strategic level. Gallagher sets the stage by referring to a meeting between Winston Churchill and Theodor Roosevelt where they in June 1942 discussed the importance that Germany did not succeed in their quest for the atomic