Southern thunder / Steve Dunn.

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Seaforth Publishing, 2019.

288 pages ; 24 cm

During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the same time pitched the two warring sides against one another to protect their import and export trades. Germany relied on Sweden, Norway and Denmark for food and raw materials, while Britain needed to restrict the flow of these goods and claim them for herself. And so the battle for the North Sea began. The campaign was ferociously fought, with the Royal Navy forced to develop new tactical thinking, including convoy, to combat the U-boat threat. Many parts of Scandinavia considered that the War had 'missed' the region, and that it was just a distant 'southern thunder'; Much of that thunder was over the North Sea. This book tells this little-known story from both a naval and a political standpoint.

9781526726636 (hbk)

940.4'5941
940.45941

English

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