I persuaded my local library to buy a copy of this book after a trip to Norway. Our guide, Inger, recommended this book . I read it and enjoyed it. Our cruise started and ended in Bergen, Norway, base of the boats in the book ( )

David Howarth was a Lieutenant-Commander in the British Royal Navy, who was given the responsibility of organizing a group of Norwegian seamen to run underground supplies and people on fishing boats to and from Lunna Island off the Shetland Coast to Norway. Howarth makes clear from the beginning that he, himself, did not participate in any of the heroics. He simply has compiled from the records this historic account. His honesty and modesty is very refreshing.
Among their famous missions was the ill-fated Jan Baalsrud attempt to blow up a Nazi boat. ( )

This is a worthwhile book on a very little known episode of World War II, with tales of Norwegian heroes who moved back and forth across enemy lines. Also known as the /Shetland Bus/. ( )