The Flight of the Vikings: Daring Escapes in Small Boats from Nazi-Occupied Norway, 1940-45

“… [The author] emphasizes the nation’s use of the sea to escape from oppression, launch resistance attacks, and their fearlessness in defying the odds against the overwhelming dangers of the ocean, German land and sea patrols, surveillance by German spies, and betrayal by collaborators.” —National Maritime Historical Society

When the full might of Nazi Germany descended without warning upon neutral Norway in April 1940, many brave Norwegians wanted to escape to Britain to join the fight aga...