The Vaagso Raid: The Commando Attack That Changed the Course of World War II

222 pp. "In the dark, early morning hours of Saturday, December 27th, 1941, a small force of British warships escorting two camouflaged excursion steamers slipped past a German lookout station and sailed boldly into one of the great fjords of occupied Norway. ...The target: Vaagso Island. ...This was to be the first raid of the war on a fortified position..." Includes black-and-white photographs.