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Britain and Norway in the Second World War Edited by Patrick Salmon LONDON : HMSO Contents Map ii Preface vii Notes on the contributors . viii Participants in the conference xii List of abbreviations xiii Introduction xv I From Neutrality to War 1939-40 1 1 British strategy and Norway 1939-40 3 Patrick Salmon 2 Norwegian neutrality and the challenge of war 15 Magne Skodvin 3 The balance sheet of the Norwegian campaign 18 Maurice Harvey 4 Norway 1940: the balance of interference 26 David Brown 5 Postscript on the campaign in Norway 33 H.F. Zeiner Gundersen Discussion 36 II The Anglo-Norwegian alliance 39 6 Relations between the Norwegian government in exile and the British government 41 Olav Riste 7 Business goes to war: The Norwegian merchant navy in Allied war transport 51 Atle Thowsen 8 Anglo-Norwegian naval cooperation 67 0ivindSchau 9 The build-up and operations of the Royal Norwegian Navy in the period 1940-1945 74 BaardHelle 10 The contribution of the Norwegian air forces 83 WilhelmMohr 11 Operation Jupiter and possible landings in Norway 97 H.P. Willmott 12 Operation Jupiter: a Norwegian perspective 109 Einar Grannes Discussion 116 VI III Intelligence and Resistance 119 13 Norway's role in British wartime intelligence 121 Edward Thomas 14 Norwegian intelligence in the Second World War 129 Ragnar Ulstein 15 Milorg and SOE 141 Amfinn Moland 16 The Linge Company and the British 152 Joachim R0nneberg IV Special Operations 159 17 Britain and Norwegian resistance: clandestine sea transport 161 Sir Brooks Richards 18 Special duty operations to Norway during the Second World War 167 Mark Seaman 19 Norwegian resistance: the Swedish connection 176 Sir Peter Tennant 20 The Spitsbergen operations 1942-3 187 Sir Alexander Glen Discussion 191 V The Liberation and after 195 21 Planning the Liberation: the Norwegian contribution 197 PaalFrisvold 22 Andrew Thorne and the liberation of Norway 206 Sir Peter Thome 23 The Western Allies, the Soviet Union and Finnmark 1944-45 221 Malcolm Mackintosh 24 Between the lines: North Norway 1944-5 232 T0nne Huitfeldt 25 The lessons of war: Norway in post-war Allied strategy 238 Clive Archer Discussion 245 Index 248.

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