Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy: The Extraordinary Wartime Exploits of a Naval Special Agent
By (Author) Patrick Dalzel-Job
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Leo Cooper Ltd
28th February 2005
New edition
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Naval forces and warfare
940.545941092
Paperback
192
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Very few men have a more exciting and dramatic story of their wartime activities to tell than Patrick Dalzel-Job. In 1940 using his special knowledge of North Norway's coast line he landed and moved over 10,000 Allied soldiers in local boats without the loss of a single life. More...Acting against specific orders he evacuated civilians from Narvik just before it was bombed - only the King of Norway's intervention halted his court martial. Thereafter his many adventures included spying on enemy shipping and operating behind the lines in France and Germany with Ian Fleming's special force unit '30AU'. As soon as he could, he returned to Norway to seek out the girl he had fallen in love with in 1940. After surviving more hazards, they were re-united, married and lived together in Scotland until her death.
Patrick Dalzel-Job is an author and local historian.