ARCTIC FRONT: The Advance of Mountain Corps Norway on Murmansk, 1941

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Looks at the battles between German and Russian troops in Scandinavia during WWII. This account of the operation was written by Wilhelm Hess, quartermaster of the Mountain Corps Norway. Draws upon his personal experience of the conditions and actions on the Arctic Front in order to describe and analyze the environment, the sequence of events, and the reasons behind certain decisions. In addition to describing how operations conducted by the Mountain Corps unfolded, Hess provides insight as to how the terrain, the flow of supplies, and the war at sea impacted those operations. Contains 20 maps.