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Until the Bitter End

On May 6th 1945, two days before the end of the war, two German submarines floated into the hamlet of Hopseidet in the evacuated Finnmark. The German commando soldiers had orders to fight any resistance. The mission was terrorism, and they fulfilled it without consideration for anyone. When they retreated, six civilian fishermen were dead, the youngest one barely sixteen years old.

In his widely successful books Scharnhorst and Banesår, Alf R. Jacobsen has described how northern Norway, in the early years of the Second World War, had become an important territorial base for Hitler's marine. Later these Arctic waters became their graveyard. In his third book, he reports from the dramatic end of the war, when the Kriegsmarine was involved in burning the entire region of Finnmark.

First published: 2003, Aschehoug Non-Fiction
Alf R. Jacobsen: Biography and bibliography