Category: Norwegian Armed Forces

An exhaustive and fully illustrated listing of all Norwegian vessels from capital ships to floating cranes. There is also some general history of their wartime doings. Each section has a short English translation summarising the fuller Norwegian text. Limited to 2,000 copies.

A history of Norway in the war - the invasion, the occupation, and the role of the fighting exiles.

An expanded and updated version of a book first published in Norwegian in 1943. It is an anthology of popular tales of the vicissitudes suffered by the enormous exiled Norwegian Merchant Marine.

The autobiography of an entrepreneur. Already a shipowner in 1939, he made a daring escape when Norway was invaded and reached England. He then blackmailed his way to New York where he spent the war involved administering the Norwegian Merchant Marine.

How the Norwegian Forces in exile were set up and a record of some of their successes, including those by naval units.

The author escaped from occupied Norway in a small boat, was rescued off the Thames estuary, served in Coastal Command, and then went back to help organise resistance in Norway.

A propaganda pamphlet which includes a brief account of the destroyer Stord's part in the sinking of the Scharnhorst.

A propaganda pamphlet covering everything from the Vikings to the struggle against the Nazis. Has some useful data.

Proceedings of a fiftieth anniversary conference which in 25 papers covers all aspects of the relationship from the battles in 1940 through civil and military operations of the government in exile, raids and special operations, and the liberation.

This St Bernard served on a Norwegian minesweeper based at Montrose then Dundee and became the mascot of the Norwegian Armed Forces.

BRUHN, David D. & HOOLE, Rob. Enemy Waters: Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Norwegian Navy, U.S. Navy, and Other Allied Mine Forces Battling the Germans and Italians in World War II. 434p., illus. Berwyn Heights, MD: Heritage Books, 2019. ISBN:  9780788458729.

Some 150 illustrations are used to give a comprehensive account of the first conversions of merchant ships to minelayers in 1939, through to the role of minesweepers in assault landings. Follows an earlier volume covering WW1.

PRIVRATSKY, K. I. The Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the Second World War. 209p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2023. ISBN: 9781399043861.

Over one thousand Norwegian merchantmen served with the Allies and this scrupulously researched book describes in great detail their contribution to the war effort.

ORR, Andrew. The Flight of the Vikings: Daring Escapes in Small Boats from Nazi-Occupied Norway 1940-45. 304p;, bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2025. ISBN: 9781036103682

Although the tales of the Shetland Bus are well documented in fact some 4000 fugitives escaped from Norway in some 360 boats during the war. Broad coverage not only of the escapes but of how many of the escapees served during the war after gaining their freedom.