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Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945

Author: Tony Insall.

Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945

Author: Tony Insall.

$6.98
Item #: D30322
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2021
Publisher: Biteback
ISBN: 9781785906619
In World War II Norway, heroic British and Norwegian intelligence agents living in the country's desolate wilderness quietly undermined the German occupiers. Their coast-watching intelligence highlighted the movements of the German fleet and led to counter-strikes which sank many enemy ships—most notably the Tirpitz in November 1944. Using previously u... More
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In World War II Norway, heroic British and Norwegian intelligence agents living in the country's desolate wilderness quietly undermined the German occupiers. Their coast-watching intelligence highlighted the movements of the German fleet and led to counter-strikes which sank many enemy ships—most notably the Tirpitz in November 1944. Using previously unpublished archival material from London, Oslo, and Moscow, Tony Insall provides a definitive appraisal of Anglo-Norwegian cooperation.


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