Lars Gyllenhaal

Having read and watched several books/films/TV productions about Bletchley Park (BP) my interest was aroused when I learnt that there was a ...

Were the German U-boats in the Atlantic defeated in May 1943? Not only is that an illusion but submarine historian Aaron S. Hamilton proves ...

OK, you have seen "Das Boot" and want to know more about the U-boat arm, its submarine types, bunkers, missions, special insignia,...

If you are researching or wargaming Norway 1940 and/or Operation Claymore 1941, this book will be of great interest to you. Because in The B...

323 pages of U-boat history with a bio for every Knight´s Cross holder. When researching WWII U-boat history you get to a point where you ...

220 pages of amazing special operations in some truly exotic places. When one hears "special operations during WWII" few will th...

This book covers more units than the "Blue Division" of Spanish volunteers. One of the baffling things about foreigners in the W...

SAS VC holder Anders Lassen (1st from the left) always catches my attention. The story they presented was that they were a neutral Swedish...

The front cover of the latest edition of this classic Third Reich source. For students of Germany´s WWII submarine warfare and the very la...

It is a bit more than a year since I visited the then new Narvik War Museum . My blog report about that visit was a bit critical. Have thi...

Norway has been blessed with a number of really good WWII history books in recent years. The latest one that I find to be a real milestone ...

Excellent video update in English. There is some good news about the wreck of the German submarine U-864, recently the subject of a book ...

Now in central Narvik, lots of military history books. Both new and old. Some really rare old books, in several languages, are now for sa...

Just some good Narvik then-and-now photos that I hadn't seen before. Remember, the destroyer Georg Thiele could slip down into the fjo...

Amazing what you can find on the surface in Arctic Norway, a Gebirgsjäger´s personal ice pick. Karl-Gunnar found it "just like that...

On Aksla outside Narvik you can really see "the hand of history". Guess it is impossible to tell if this glove was worn by a Germa...