Shetland Bus

Available from Scandinavian Specialties when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

by David Howarth From the author of We Die Alone , The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees—all under constant threat by German U-boats and winter storms. The occupation in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain’s ability to gather intelligence information. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetlan