![]() ![]() The book is in very good + condition with light bumping to the spine ends and a name written on the front free endpaper. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and a small gold illustration on the front board. In this book David Howarth, who was second in command of the Shetland base, recounts the hundreds of trips made by fishing boats in the dark of Arctic winter to resist the Nazi onslaught. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland Islands to land weapons, supplies, and agents and to rescue refugees. ![]() The occupation of Western Europe and Scandinavia in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain's ability to gather intelligence information. This is the story of the Special Norwegian Naval unit based on Shetland. x, 220pp, 3 maps and 16 black and white plates. ![]()
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