{"product_id":"9781801104821","title":"Norway's War: A People's Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940-45","description":"Author: Ferguson, Robert\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781801104821\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Jul 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 464\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47509048918174,"sku":"UBD-9781801104821","price":44.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781801104821.jpg?v=1780640489","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781801104821","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}