"For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. This famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell on the novel's hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through the wild northern territories of the new United Kingdom."--Cover.

In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in history, destroying two gigantic dams in Germany's industrial heartland with a revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Now, with no blue-prints left behind, Hugh Hunt and a team of expert dam engineers, explosive experts and pilots try to re-create the extreme engineering challenges faced by Wallis and the pilots.

In 1943, Hitler hatches a diabolical weapon: a bank of "superguns" housed in a massive underground complex in Nazi-occupied northern France. Together, the guns would be able to pump 600 high explosive shells 100 miles to London each hour, spelling doom for the Allies. Engineers, archaeologists, and WWII historians investigate this fearsome weapon and two audacious missions designed to destroy it.