{"product_id":"norways-war-1","title":"Norway's War","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55761489559896,"sku":"9781801104838","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781801104838_54219630-cee3-4c3c-b7b1-0c447b383f98.jpg?v=1778007628","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/norways-war-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}