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The Rat Hunter Max Manus Original title: Rottejegeren Max Manus (1914 - 1996) was a Publisher: Kagge Forlag 2021 Norwegian resistance fighter in Fiction / Novel Kompani Linge during WWII. He is one of the few who has been awarded Norway's highest ranked award, the War Cross with two swords. The author has also written several autobiographical books. This is his The Rat Hunters is the name given to the Norwegian resistance fighters who only novel. performed the dirtiest jobs during World War II: they liquidated informants, torturers and other Norwegians who worked for the Germans. In the post-war period, this part of the war history has been concealed. In this sensational and until recently unpublished manuscript written in the years after the war, Kompani Linge lieutenant and Norway's most famous resistance fighter Max Manus tells about the rat hunters. At the center of the story we meet the author's alter ego Freddy and a group of veterans. They try to find their place in society and in love, but dull the bad memories of the war with alcohol and other excesses. "The Rat Hunter" is a hard-boiled and vivid picture of Norway in the late 1940s. It's a story about the real price of war - from a person who knew better than most what he was talking about. "It's nice to feel the wonderful sense of security that touching a gun always gives you," Manus writes, adding: "But the memories never leave him." Stilton Literary Agency Hans Petter Bakketeig: +47 47 674759, [email protected] www.stilton.no.

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Notes 1 Introduction 1. Donald Macintyre, Narvik (London: Evans, 1959), p. 15. 2. See Olav Riste, The Neutral Ally: Norway’s Relations with Belligerent Powers in the First World War (London: Allen and Unwin, 1965). 3. Reflections of the C-in-C Navy on the Outbreak of War, 3 September 1939, The Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs, 1939–45 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990), pp. 37–38. 4. Report of the C-in-C Navy to the Fuehrer, 10 October 1939, in ibid. p. 47. 5. Report of the C-in-C Navy to the Fuehrer, 8 December 1939, Minutes of a Conference with Herr Hauglin and Herr Quisling on 11 December 1939 and Report of the C-in-C Navy, 12 December 1939 in ibid. pp. 63–67. 6. MGFA, Nichols Bohemia, n 172/14, H. W. Schmidt to Admiral Bohemia, 31 January 1955 cited by Francois Kersaudy, Norway, 1940 (London: Arrow, 1990), p. 42. 7. See Andrew Lambert, ‘Seapower 1939–40: Churchill and the Strategic Origins of the Battle of the Atlantic, Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (1994), pp. 86–108. 8. For the importance of Swedish iron ore see Thomas Munch-Petersen, The Strategy of Phoney War (Stockholm: Militärhistoriska Förlaget, 1981). 9. Churchill, The Second World War, I, p. 463. 10. See Richard Wiggan, Hunt the Altmark (London: Hale, 1982). 11. TMI, Tome XV, Déposition de l’amiral Raeder, 17 May 1946 cited by Kersaudy, p. 44. 12. Kersaudy, p. 81. 13. Johannes Andenæs, Olav Riste and Magne Skodvin, Norway and the Second World War (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1966), p.
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