Название: Swedes at War: Willing Warriors of a Neutral Nation, 1914-1945
Автор: Lars Gyllenhaal, Lennart Westberg
Издательство: Aberjona Press
ISBN: 0977756319
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 394
Размер: 8,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the mud and bloody hell of Flanders to forlorn battles in Siberia and bitter street fighting in the very heart of Berlin 1945. From Africa to the Arctic, fighting men from a country frowned upon for its "cowardly" neutrality participated in all the crucial battles of World Wars I and II. Their homeland was Sweden, whichhas enjoyed almost two hundred years of peace. Swedes at War is the first book in English to reveal that, despite Sweden's policy of neutrality, no fewer than 23,000 Swedish citizens went to war between 1914 and 1945.
Swedes at War also puts an end to the myth that most Swedes enlisted in Hitler's forces. Only 200 joined the Waffen-SS or the Wehrmacht of 1939-1945. In the same period 9,000 Swedish citizens joined the Americans, the British, the Norwegians, and the Poles.