Norwegian Campaign - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • The 1942 film The Day Will Dawn is largely set in Norway just before and just after the invasion.
  • The invasion and the following occupation are depicted in the John Steinbeck novel The Moon Is Down, although neither Germany nor Norway are referred to by name.
  • Paul Milner, a major character in the wartime crime drama Foyle's War, served in the Norwegian Campaign and lost a leg there.
  • The adventure novel Biggles Defies the Swastika by Captain W. E. Johns portrays the protagonist Squadron Leader Bigglesworth's (Biggles) adventures while trying to escape from Norway after getting stuck in the country during the German invasion. The novel contains several references to the occupation of Oslo, the battles at Narvik and the British naval response to the campaign.
  • Into the White a Norwegian fiction film (2011) about German and British crew members that encounter each other after both aircrafts crash landed in the Norwegain mountains late April 1940.

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