Quisling: A Study in Treachery

by Hans Fredrik Dahl, Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife

Overview

The word "Quisling" has been used as a synonym for "traitor" or "treachery." The original Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) was a gifted Norwegian army officer who sided with the Nazis on the first day of Norway's entry into the Second World War. Dahl's biography is the first to use a complete range of source material from Nordic, German, Italian and Russian archives, and family archives now in the United States tracing Quisling's career through to the drama of his trial and execution for high treason in 1945.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521496971
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/27/1999
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.46(w) x 9.53(h) x 1.34(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Prologue: innocent?; 1. Back in Norway; 2. The Russian dream; 3. A reluctant leader; 4. Mussolini or Hitler?; 5. A time of crisis; 6. Leader on probation; 7. Revolution from above; 8. Betrayed by Hitler; 9. On the edge of the volcano; 10. An enemy of the people; Epilogue: dangerous?; Archive sources; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...this book is unique in drawing on such a comprehensive body of source material from Nordic, German, Italian, and Russian archives, and from family records on the United States." Translation Review

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