At his request, his ashes were scattered over the waters of Lunna Voe, Shetland, near Lunna House, the first base of the Shetland Bus operation.

Some of the journeys were 2,000 miles long and lasted three weeks, and all of them were made in the depth of the sub-Arctic winter in fishing boats from fifty to seventy feet long, sailing alone between Norway and Shetland in some of the stormiest seas of the world.' - from dust-jacket blurb. He wrote an account of the Shetland Bus operation, as well as many other books of history, bringing to his many of his books an immense practical knowledge of ships and the sea. Their object was to land men and cargo in Norway for the Norwegian Underground, and to rescue refugees and carry them to Britain. The heroes of the book are Norwegian sailors, fishermen and merchant seamen, who had escaped to Shetland after the invasion of Norway by Germany in 1940. A story of heroism and endeavour and of adventure at sea. Jan Baalsrud was part of an ill-fated sabotage party in World War II which was to have landed on the Norwegian coast with the. 'The Story of the Special Norwegian Naval Unit based on Scotland. Cream boards with blue lettering on spine, blue illustration on front board. x, 220, pages + 20 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. We value your privacy and use cookies to remember your shopping preferences and to analyze our website traffic. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. 1955 reprint of 1953 edition, of a title first published in 1951. Find The Shetland Bus by Howarth, David at Biblio. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. Some tape and adhesive residue to edges of dust-jacket. Previous owner's initials on front endpaper.

The Shetland Bus by David Howarth