Denmark and Norway 1940 - Dildy, Douglas C
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On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark, and then Norway, in an attempt to guarantee security of Scandinavia's vital mineral resources for their war industry. This assault, Operation Weserübung, represented the first joint air-land-and-sea campaign in the history of warfare, and was the only such campaign planned by the Wehrmacht high command, including all three services of the Wehrmacht. This book describes the events of this tumultuous campaign 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.…mehr

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On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark, and then Norway, in an attempt to guarantee security of Scandinavia's vital mineral resources for their war industry. This assault, Operation Weserübung, represented the first joint air-land-and-sea campaign in the history of warfare, and was the only such campaign planned by the Wehrmacht high command, including all three services of the Wehrmacht. This book describes the events of this tumultuous campaign 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.
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Autorenporträt
Doug Dildy is a retired US Air Force (USAF) colonel who spent nine years in Western Europe. During this time he was temporarily stationed at Aalborg, Denmark, and B_d_, Norway, and thus has been able to personally examine the battlefield areas featured in this book. He is a USAF Academy graduate with a degree in history and has authored several campaign studies as part of his formal military education, and a number of historical articles, including ones on the Danish and Norwegian air arms' defense against the German invasion of 1940, for the amateur modeling magazine Small Air Forces Observer. The author lives in New Mexico, USA.