The Campaign in Norway

Battery Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder, a fine reprint from the Imperial War Museum, being thus a First Edition Thus. Dark green cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering over black cloth label at front cover and spine. From the publisher's blurb, "T.K. Derry's official account of the disastrous opening British campaign of the Second World War in April-May 1940, which led to the downfall of Neville Chamberlain and the elevation of Winston Churchill to the Premiership. Derry describes the rival British and German plans to occupy Norway, the source of vital raw materials. He shows how Hitler, far from ?missing the bus? in Chamberlain?s contemptuous phrase, struck first, invading by air and sea and catching the British on the hop. Derry details the belated British response, with amphibious operations and landings around Trondheim and Narvik in central and northern Norway. Despite losing half their destroyers to the Royal Navy, Germany's speedy occupation of the main population centres and the Luftwaffe's command of the air, made her victory and a humiliating British withdrawal inevitable. The author is unsparing in his analysis of the command and intelligence failures behind Britain's first major military setback of the war, which had such far-reaching political consequences." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvi, 289 pp., with plates, maps, appendices, index, notes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.