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An appraisal of Anglo-Norwegian cooperation in the Second World War, subtitled "Special Operations & Intelligence In Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective".
List of contents
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
Maps
Chapter 1 AN INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 THE RESISTANCE BEGINS
9 April 1940: German invasion
Chapter 3 'DANGEROUS RIVALS'
SIS and SOE:did their differencesdamage operations in Norway?
Chapter 4 CRACKING ABWEHR CODES
How Bletchley Park made the breakthrough
Chapter 5 GERMAN SUCCESS, NEAR MISSES AND FAILURES
Abwehr espionage: agents, double agents and Double-Cross
Chapter 6 SECRET ALLIANCES TAKE EFFECT
1941-1942: creating a productive relationship
Chapter 7 SOE'S SUCCESSES AND SETBACKS
Operations and problems 1941-1943
Chapter 8 THE SIS COAST-WATCHERS
Development of naval coverage
Chapter 9 OPERATIONS FRESHMAN AND GUNNERSIDE
Attempts to destroy the heavy water plant at Vemork
Chapter 10 THE TIDE STARTS TO TURN
1943-1944: preparations for liberation
Chapter 11 HUNTING DOWN THE TIRPITZ
Churchill's obsession
Chapter 12 SOE SABOTAGE AND DISRUPTING THE U-BOATS
1944: diversification of operations
Chapter 13 'LUKKET PÅ GRUNN AV GLEDE'
'Closed because of joy' - the final steps to freedom
Chapter 14 RETRIBUTION, RECOGNITION AND COMPENSATION
The aftermath
Appendix: DSO CITATIONS FOR BJØRN RØRHOLT AND TORSTEIN RAABY
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
About the author
Dr Tony Insall worked for more than thirty years in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and served in Nigeria, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia, before spending five years in Norway. He was also an associate editor of FCO Historians and has published several books and articles on Norwegian history. He is a senior visiting fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Summary
Secret Alliances is an authoritative new perspective on some of the most remarkable exploits of the Second World War.
