The Sledge Patrol: a WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Victory.

From: Military Review | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

David Howarth, Lyons Press, NY, 2001, 233 pages, $14.95.

The Sledge Patrol is a reprint of a 40-year-old book about a small skirmish on the periphery of World War II that helped decide the course of the war. When Germany occupied Denmark, Denmark's Greenland colony quietly seceded, and the colony's governor formed a militia. The militia, patrolling the coasts, prevented German landing parties from establishing military bases on Greenland. The lack of German forces on Greenland bases would have made little difference, except that Greenland offered an excellent position from ...

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