Great Work on the War in Northern Norway

These days, the results of a nearly ten-year-long research project led by UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, are available:

"WW2 in the North", which consists of three volumes about the war in the North, with articles covering the entire spectrum of the war, from the regular battles and partisan activities to daily life and major political consequences of the German's massive investment in Norway's northernmost county for five long years.

This is reported by The National Defense Magazine - Norway. The publisher is Orkana Akademisk Forlag.

Project leader and Editor-in-Chief, associate professor Fredrik Fagertun at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at Uit, says that the idea of a work dealing with WW2 in Northen Norway goes back several decades.

"Many believed that such a work would contribute to deepening, strengthening and supplementing the national Norwegian narrative, not least based on Northern Norway's strategic location, the large German investment in building new infrastructure in the North and the relatively strong German presence in the county and in the Northern Soviet Union and Finland, says Fagertun.