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Hitler's Savage Canary
Lampe, David; Riis-Jorgensen, Birger
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Description for Hitler's Savage Canary
Paperback. "The savage canary: the story of resistance in Denmark was first published by Cassell & Company .. London in 1957. This edition contains a revised plate section and a new foreword by Birger Riis-Jrgensen, ambassador at the Embassy of Denmark in London"--T.p. verso. Num Pages: 264 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 414.
After Adolf Hitler made plans to create a model protectorate” out of Denmark, Winston Churchill predicted that the nation would become the Führer’s tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride, the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the side of the Nazis. By 1945, they had published twenty-six million issues of illegal newspapers. They set up radio guides for Allied aircraft on the coasts and proved invaluable in penetrating Nazi defenses.
Regular boat services ran between Sweden, Denmark, and Britain. German ships ... Read more
After Adolf Hitler made plans to create a model protectorate” out of Denmark, Winston Churchill predicted that the nation would become the Führer’s tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride, the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the side of the Nazis. By 1945, they had published twenty-six million issues of illegal newspapers. They set up radio guides for Allied aircraft on the coasts and proved invaluable in penetrating Nazi defenses.
Regular boat services ran between Sweden, Denmark, and Britain. German ships ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781628723717
SKU
V9781628723717
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Ref
99-15
About Lampe, David; Riis-Jorgensen, Birger
David Lampe was born in Maryland in 1923. He served with the United States Army Air Corps in Europe during World War II until his discharge in 1952. After the war he lived in Britain, working as a freelance writer. This was his first book, originally titled The Savage Canary, and published in 1957 in England. Lampe died in 2003 ... Read more
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