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By the end of May 1940, the remains of Nazi-Germanys famous Narvik mountain army – some 2,000 surrounded, hungry and freezing men – faced a stark choice: either abject surrrender to the Allied forces or crossing the border into Sweden, resulting in a humiliating internment. They were saved by Hitler in the nick of time when his 3-million-strong Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe combined armies on 10 May attacked and broke through into Belgium and Northern France, spreading panic and forcing the French and British divisions to flee southwards and towards the Channel ports. Every man who cold carry a weapon were suddenly needed to defend Great Britain, and the celebrated 30 000-man Narvik detachment of British, French and Polish troops were called home – without a word being said to the hapless Norwegians. They had fought side-by-side with their Allies through two months of harsh winter to re-capture the strategicallty important iron ore-port only to be left alone at the last moment. The shortlived victory was indeed bitter. Alf R. Jacobsen (b. 1950) is one of Norways leading crime and non-fiction-writer and has penned 60 books and produced 200 documentary films. He was the first, with support of the Vega publishing house, to go to the bottom of the unsolved questions surrounding the Narvik battles. In his two-volume history he tells it all: the drunken brawls, the double-dealing and backstabbing among the officers and the so far covered-up mutiny by leading officers of the Royal Navy and the Army against the intrigues made by Churchill and his personal envoy at the front, Lord Cork. The two books inspired the cinema-success «Narvik» - still running on Netflix.
