{"product_id":"norways-war-a-peoples-struggle-against-nazi-tyranny-1940-45-9781801104838","title":"Norway's War: A People's Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940-45","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the early morning of 9 April 1940, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea fleet of German battleships entered the Oslofjord.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorwegian artillery delayed them long enough for King Haakon VII and his cabinet to escape to England, but there was no stopping the Nazi \u003ci\u003eBlitzkrieg\u003c\/i\u003e. Norway stood on the cusp of a traumatic five-year occupation whose aftershocks would continue to trouble its national consciousness long after the defeated Germans departed in May 1945. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Ferguson tells the extraordinary - and relatively little-known - story of the occupation and its judicial aftermath. He focuses in particular on German attempts to use a Norwegian Nazi administration under Vidkun Quisling to impose a National Socialist revolution on the country, and on the many brave and ingenious ways in which the Norwegians resisted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFerguson describes the occupation in all its aspects - from Nazi terror to non-violent resistance, from censorship to sabotage - via a series of heterogeneous but interlinked narratives. Key players in the occupation and its wider story - including the pitiless \u003ci\u003eReichskommissar \u003c\/i\u003eJosef Terboven, the Norwegian crime writer-turned-SS-strongman Jonas Lie, the principled Lutheran bishop Eivind Berggrav and the enigmatic double agent Gunnar Waaler - are drawn in memorably vivid colours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA riveting account of the Second World War's forgotten occupation, \u003ci\u003eNorway's War \u003c\/i\u003eevokes in moving fashion the moral and physical courage of a people who, faced with the brutal tyranny of a totalitarian invader, refused to be cowed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Apollo Publishing International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.71h x 5.11w x 1.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781801104838","brand":"Apollo Publishing International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47937669333129,"sku":"9781801104838","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0157c3bf-a24b-4455-92d2-4d6ae08e8602.jpg?v=1786472383","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/norways-war-a-peoples-struggle-against-nazi-tyranny-1940-45-9781801104838","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}