Narvik and After A Study of the Scandinavian Campaign

E-365: Hutchinson. Very Good. 0. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Hutchinson & Co, London, UK. No Date (1940? ). 216 pgs. Illustrated with b/w plates, b/w text maps. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine is faded and lightly chipped at the spine ends; staining and wear with an Amazon sticker present to the rear panel of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The book focuses on the naval battles that occurred at Narvik, Norway, on April 10th and 13th, 1940, between German and British forces. Narvik is the ice-free far northern port from which Swedish iron ore was exported -- I believe year-round -- but principally when the Baltic was ice-bound during the winter months. That high-grade ore was vitally important to the German war economy and a tempting target for British interdiction. Germany had invaded Denmark and Norway on April 9th, 1940. This caught the British, the world's leading naval power at that time, unprepared though they had intelligence about heightened German activity and were misled by numerous faulty assumptions about German intentions and capabilities. The invasion of the Low Countries and France did not start until May 10th and for a brief few months Britain and France contested German control of central and northern Norway. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages .