{"product_id":"norways-war-a-peoples-struggle-against-nazi-tyranny-1940-45-paperback","title":"Norway's War: A People's Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940-45 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning writer, translator, and radio dramatist. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eScandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Vikings: A History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHenrik Ibsen: A New Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEnigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Biography Award and won the University of London J.G. Robertson Award. His translation of Lars Mytting's \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e won Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2016. Born in the UK in 1948, he emigrated to Norway in 1983 and has made his home there since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.41 x 7.71 x 5.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 23, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48271756493021,"sku":"9781801104838","price":26.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/wzFKSiJfna9781801104838.webp?v=1785253094","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/norways-war-a-peoples-struggle-against-nazi-tyranny-1940-45-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}