The book’s contribution is to synthesize and systematize the research field. The author has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Norway 1940–1945 and shares his understanding and schemas with us ... Specialists will find information outside their expertise here or be able to admire the clarity of the presentation. For the serious student, the book will constitute a useful introduction.

European History Quarterly

In concise yet dramatic prose Ole Kristian Grimnes delivers a nuanced history of Norway’s role in the European theatre of World War II. The master historian unscrambles the cultural, ideological, military, political and socio-economic elements of a complex historical puzzle, producing a lucid and comprehensive account for 21st-century readerships. <i>Norway in the Second World War</i> takes up the difficult questions that previous studies have often ignored and offers an authoritative history for the decades to come.

Marianne Stecher-Hansen, Professor of Danish and Scandinavian studies, University of Washington, USA