We Die Alone

World War II History

Author: David Howarth

In 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed to Norway to support the Norwegian resistance. Betrayed, only one man survived a Nazi ambush. Crippled with frostbite, snow-blind and hunted by the Nazis, he found an Arctic village where the people risked their lives to save him…..Read More

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