Research Catalog

Title

Denmark and Norway 1940 : Hitler's boldest operation / Doug Dildy ; illustrated by John White.

Author

Dildy, Doug

Publication

Oxford : Osprey, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

White, John

Description

96 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark, and then Norway, in an attempt to secure the vital mineral resources of Scandinavia for their war industry. This assault, Operation Weserübung, represents the first joint air-land-and-sea campaign in the history of warfare, and was the only such campaign planned, launched, and completed by the three services of the Wehrmacht. It also included the use of the rarest of German armoured vehicles, the Naubaufahrzeug NbFz.A/B (PzKw V/VI) experimental 'land battleship'. This book describes the events of this tumultuous campaign of World War II (1939-1945) that not only led to Winston Churchill's appointment as British Prime Minister, but also saw the crippling of the German Kriegsmarine as a fighting force, as it was reduced to a fleet of submarines and a handful of heavy warships used as commerce raiders."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Campaign ; 183

Uniform Title

Campaign (Osprey Publishing) 183.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Denmark
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Norway
• Norway > History > German occupation, 1940-1945
• Denmark > History > German occupation, 1940-1945

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Origins of the campaign -- Chronology -- Opposing plans: The German plan ; The Allies' counterplan -- Opposing commanders: The Germans ; The Neutrals ; The Allies -- Opposing forces: German forces assigned ; Danish armed forces ; Norwegian armed forces ; Allied expeditionary forces -- Orders of battle: German forces ; Danish forces ; Norwegian forces ; Allied expeditionary forces -- The campaign: Opening moves ; Wesertag in Denmark ; Landings in Norway ; The Royal Navy responds ; The Allies arrive ; The Luftwaffe rules the air ... and the waves ; Trapped at Narvik ; The final act -- Operation Juno -- The aftermath -- The battlefield today.

ISBN

• 9781846031175 (pbk.)
• 1846031176 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 77013121
• SCSB-11190844

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library