Musketoon - Commando Raid Glomfjord 1942

Jonathan Cape, London, 1964. Hardback with DW in good used condition. Pen marks on front e/p.

In September 1942 nine British, two Norwegian and one Canadian undertook a commando raid under the operational name `Musketoon'. Their objective was a large hydro-electric power station in northern Norway, which supplied power to an aluminium factory of great importance to Germany. The commandos were taken from Scotland in a Free French submarine and, with skill and courage, succeeded against heavy odds in blowing up the power station. There followed days of desperate flight with the constant fear of death from starvation or exposure. Only two of the raiders survived the attack and the war. Most of the others were taken as POWs and shot by the Germans at Sachsenhausen concentration camp...