- Duits antiquarisch boek over de zeeslag in 1940 om het Noorse havenstadje Narvik (waar de Zweedse ijzererts via spoorlijn naar Kiruna werd verladen) terug te veroveren op de Engelsen.
- de Engelsen hadden Narvik bezet om te voorkomen dat de Duitsers via deze haven het Zweedse ijzererts uit Kiruna zouden kunnen verschepen.
- De Duitsers vielen aan met bergtroepen (bergjäger) die met torpedoboten (en later met vliegtuigen) werden aangevoerd. Er ontstond in de fjord een zeeslag tussen Kriegsmarine en Engels smaldeel dat te hulp kwam: de zware kruiser Warspite vergezeld van 10 destroyers. De Engelsen schoten de haven in puin, en brachten drie Duitse torpedoboten tot zinken, maar verloren er zelf ook drie. Narvik zelf werd grotendeels verwoest
- Let op: dit is een antiquarisch boek uit 1940 gedrukt in oud-Duits schrift
- The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940 as a naval battle of the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian town of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War.
- The two naval battles in the Ofotfjord on 10 April and 13 April were fought between the British Royal Navy and Nazi Germany Kriegsmarine, while the two-month land campaign was fought between Norwegian, French, British, and Polish troops against German mountain troops, shipwrecked Kriegsmarine sailors and German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) from the 7th Air Division.
- Although defeated at sea off Narvik, losing control of the town of Narvik and being pushed back towards the Swedish border, the Germans eventually prevailed because of the Allied evacuation from Norway in June 1940 following the Battle of France.
- Narvik provided an ice-free harbour in the North Atlantic for iron ore transported by rail from Kiruna in Sweden. Both sides in the war had an interest in securing this iron supply for themselves and denying it to the enemy, thereby setting the stage for one of the biggest battles since the Invasion of Poland.[1]
- Prior to the German invasion, British forces had considered Narvik as a possible landing point for an expedition to help Finland in the Winter War. Such an expedition also had the potential of taking control of the Swedish mines and opening up the Baltic for the Allies.[2]