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20%OFFChrister Jorgensen - Hitler´s Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945 - 9781473884564 - V9781473884564
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Hitler´s Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945

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Description for Hitler´s Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945 Paperback. .
'In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern Karelia and on the Murmansk coast.' (Lieutenant-General Waldemar Erfurth, German Army). Despite this statement, the German Army's first campaign in the far north was a great success: between April and June 1940 German forces totalling less than 20,000 men seized Norway, a state of three million people, for minimal losses. Hitler's Arctic War is ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473884564
SKU
V9781473884564
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Ref
99-3

About Christer Jorgensen
CHRIS MANN is a lecturer in European history at the University of Surrey and University College, London. A holder of a doctorate in war studies from King's College, London, his author area of expertise is Scandinavian military history in the twentieth century, specifically during World War II. He is the author of Norwegian Armed Forces in Exile 1940-45 and The ... Read more

Reviews for Hitler´s Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945
The Scandinavian theatre of WW2 is often overlooked as a peripheral area of limited significance, yet this book demonstrates its strategic importance and the considerable resources which both sides were obliged to commit there, despite the extraordinary challenges of moving and supplying armies in horrendous weather across utterly remote, inaccessible terrain. Much of it concerns the remarkable efforts of the ... Read more

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