Pull the cords tight on your Windbluse and unflap your Bergmütze , there's a battle raging to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway - and it's one that will see changing fortunes until the very end. Most books on Narvik focus on either the naval battles, or individual Norwegian, British, Polish, French and German units that fought to control northern Norway. This one covers both - land and sea - aided by trusty Osprey maps that guide you step by step through the events. What's more, few books on Narvik drill down this deep on the forces of the fighting five: from Gebirgsjägers to Guardsmen, Fallschirmjägers to Foreign Legionnaires, the level of tactical detail is impressive, even down to company command. But it also helps you understand the strategic confusion surrounding the whole Allied expedition to the north too. Want a war story with a 'bit of everything' in it? Destroyer battles, amphibious landings, sabotage, commando raids, flying-boat insertions, changing weather, daring ski missions, challenging mountain warfare, the death of an aircraft carrier, the famous battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau , and even parachuting Gebirgsjägers - Narvik 1940 has it all.