After Hitler conquered Poland, the British began to exert control of the neutral Norwegian coast, an action that threatened to cut off Germany's iron-ore conduit to Sweden and outflank from the start its hegemony on the Continent. Germany quickly responded with a dizzying series of assaults, using e[...]

This book examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia. A small [...]

This book describes the often overlooked World War II campaign for Norway-a complex series of battles in which Hitler out-gambled Churchill in order to secure a vital resource lifeline for the Third Reich.After Hitler conquered Poland and was still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British b[...]

Finlands val 19391944 skildrar det så kallade fortsättningskriget, den säregna koalitionen mellan Tyskland och Finland under andra världskriget som hittills uppmärksammats i långt mindre grad än finska vinterkriget. Medan vinterkriget kunde betraktas som en ädel Davids kamp mot en totalitär[...]