{"product_id":"norways-war-a-peoples-struggle-against-nazi-tyranny-1940-45","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\u003e Norwegian 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\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\u003e Ferguson 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\u003e Josef 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\u003e A riveting account of the Second World War's forgotten occupation, \u003ci\u003eNorway's War\u003c\/i\u003e evokes 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":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Norway's War A People's Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940-45","offer_id":46272407699653,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-80110-483-8.jpg?v=1779596600","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/norways-war-a-peoples-struggle-against-nazi-tyranny-1940-45","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}