Hitler’s Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 by Henrik Lunde (popular e readers .TXT) 📗

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NOTES

Prologue

1 While foreign representatives in the Scandinavian countries and Scandinavian representatives in other countries were known as “ministers” and their offices “legations,” I have chosen to use the more recognized terms “ambassadors” and “embassies.”

2 Bjørn Bjørnsen, Narvik 1940 (Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1980), pp. 146-147.

3 Rolf Hobson and Tom Kristiansen, Norsk Forsvarshitorie. Bind 3 1905-1940. Total krig, nøytralitet og politisk splittelse (Bergen: Eide Forlag, 2001), p. 248.

4 Michael Tamelander and Niklas Zetterling, Niende april. Nazi-Tysklands invasjon av Norge (Oslo: Spartacus, 2001),

Chapter 1

1 J. L. Moulton, A Study of Warfare in Three Dimensions: The Norwegian Campaign of 1940 (Athens, Ohio: The Ohio University Press, 1967), p. 44.

2 Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948), p. 536.

3 William Norton Medlicott, The Economic Blockade (London: HMSO 1952-59), vol. 1, chapter 4 Section 6.

4 Memorandum by the War