Publisher's Synopsis
In April 1940, an uneasy pause, following the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939, settled over Europe. All the major protagonists were insufficiently prepared to engage in a major land battle on the Western Front during the winter of 1939/40, the RAF was unready to launch a strategic offensive on Germany and it was only at sea that the conflict was pursued with any conviction. Goaded by Winston Churchill, the Allies contemplated severing the supply route of iron ore from Sweden to Germany via Narvik but, for six months, the governments in London and Paris debated incessantly but did nothing. The government in Oslo, clinging to Norway's neutralist principles, watched and waited.
