BLOOD ON THE MIDNIGHT SUN

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European Resistance Movements in World War II have always had a certain vogue, for even after twenty years the participants have interesting stories to elate. In this collection of episodes and incidents from the five-year period of Hitler's unjustified occupation of Norway, some of the people involved in the Norwegian Underground are spotlighted at the height of their adventurous activity. Speration Gold Transport succeeded in snatching the entire Norwegian bullion reserves from under Nazi noses and ferrying it trans-Atlantically to Canada. Even more important, internationally, was the sabotage mission on the heavy water works at Vermark that were supplying the valuable deuterium oxide for German nuclear research. Spearheaded by the Norwegian Linge Company in England, several men killed in, sabotaged, and survived. At the same time, the Southern fjords were striped with Underground mariners exporting those endangered to Scotland. The patriotic picture was not untarnished; not all of Norway resisted. There were plenty of quislings in the service of their homebred Fuhrer. Both heroes and villains are represented in these consistently objective selections, many of which were earnered from surviving Resistance fighters themselves. Combining adventure and historical reportage, this is an excellent documentary.

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Publisher: Norton

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION