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I Saw It Happen In Norway | 
 enlarge | Author: C.j. Hambro
Publisher: Richardson Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 5161997
Media: Paperback
Pages: 292
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1406720445
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781406720440
ASIN: 1406720445
Publication Date: March 15, 2007
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C. . Hambro and Otto Ruge, Co-mmander-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army. I SAW IT JL Ox JL W JL JL IN NORWAMO BY C. J. HAMBRO PRESIDENT OF THE NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENT ILLUSTRATED D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY Incorporated NEW YORK LONDON 1940 D. 1940, BY COMPANY, INC. --. . All rights reserved. This book, or parts ti reof, must not be reproduced in any quot form without permission of the publisher. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1026493 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. YOU LL SEE IT HAPPEN .... i II. A SURPRISE PARTY ...... 8 III. NEGOTIATIONS AND BOMBARDMENT . 38 IV. DEVELOPMENTS IN OCCUPIED NORWAY 47 V. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL INTERLUDE . 60 VI. GOING NORTH ....... 77 VII. INCIDENTS FROM STOCKHOLM ... 91 VIII. IN THE GLOW OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN 105 IX. THE WAR IN NORWAY THE NAVAL DEFENSE ........ 121 X. THE WAR IN NORWAY THE ARMY . 144 XL THE WAR IN NORWAY THE AIR FORCE 173 XII. IN EXILE ......... 182 APPENDIX TEXT OF MEMORANDUM DELIVERED BY THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT TO DR. KOHT, NORWEGIAN MINISTER OF FOR EIGN AFFAIRS ........ 203 . LIST OF DEMANDS MADE UPON THE NOR WEGIAN GOVERNMENT BY GERMANY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE INVASION OF NORWAY ......... 20J INDEX ........... 209 ILLUSTRATIONS C. J, Hambro and Otto Ruge, Coipmander-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army frontispiece FACING AGE Refugees evacuating a small town 12 Norwegian troops quot somewhere in Norway quot . . . 18 Machine-gunning the German planes in southern Norway z6 A bus used by the Germans, destroyed by the Nor wegians 32 The Norwegian fjord-horses were extremely useful 40 Elverum after the German air attacks .... 44 German quot protectors quot at work J2 On the Narvik front hiding from the German bombers j8 Grave of a German officer in Norway .... 64 An ambulance making its way over the mountains . 70 Sharpshooters in the snow 74 Norwegian and British comrades 80 Children parading in front of the Royal Palace . 86 German prisoners on the Narvik front .... 92 A ruined house in Narvik 100 King Haakon and Crown-Prince Olav outside the Bishop s house at Tromso 106 ILLUSTRATIONS PACING PAGE Ruins of the station yard in Narvik . . . . no A residential district in Narvik 114 General Fleischer 118 Sunken freighters in Narvik harbor 124 The ruins of this church are all that is left of Namsos 132 One of the more than thirty ships sunk in the harbor at Narvik . . , 138 Norwegian soldiers advancing against the German positions 148 This is where Bodo once was 154 Ruins of Steinkjaer 158 General Otto Ruge, Commander-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army 164 Colonel Getz of the Norwegian Army . . . . 170 German bombers saved by the Norwegians from sinking through the ice 178 Eskimo dogs were of great use on the northern front 188 A scene of destruction in Trondheim 192 The picture of Christ remains intact 198 I SAW IT HAPPEN IN NORWAY CHAPTER I YOU LL SEE IT HAPPEN THIS is not a literary essay, neither is it a con tinuous historical treatise. It is merely a personal narrative of political experiences, a brief sketch of certain events in a small country as they ap peared to one man who happened to be in a posi tion to follow developments from day to day. What happened in his country is merely an incident in the armageddon of the moment. On the big political chessboard Norway is only a pawn, and for the final outcome of the war the fate of Norway may seem at most a secondary issue. But to all those who understand the scope and the importance to all mankind of the struggle that is now going on, what happened in Norway is a rare object-lesson and ought to be studied in every country that is still neutral and independi ent, for every country is in danger, and every unsuspicious nation is living under a mortal menace. Norway was no neighboring country of Ger
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