norwegian campaign

The book details the efforts made by both the Norwegian and British authorities to remove Norway’s gold reserves out of the reach of the advancing German Army when Norway was invaded in 1940. Both Norway and Great Britain were taken by surprise both by the Invasion and the subsequent speed of...

This is the story of how the German invasion of Norway came to be, with, as its climax, the 1st Battle of Narvik on 10th April 1940 in which Captain Warburton-Lee in HMS Hardy (he and she lost in the action, he posthumously awarded the first VC of the War), with four other H-class destroyers, in...