{"product_id":"fire-and-ice-9780750989138","title":"Fire and Ice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Hitler ordered the north of Nazi-occupied Norway to be destroyed in a scorched earth retreat in 1944, everything of potential use to the Soviet enemy was destroyed. \u003c\/b\u003eHarbours, bridges and towns were dynamited and every building torched. Fifty thousand people were forcibly evacuated  thousands more fled to hide in caves in sub-zero temperatures. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHigh above the Arctic Circle, the author crosses the region gathering scorched earth stories: of refugees starving on remote islands, fathers shot dead just days before the war ended, grandparents driven mad by relentless bombing, towns burned to the ground. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe explores what remains of the Lyngen Line mountain bunkers in the Norwegian Alps, where the Allies feared a last stand by fanatical Nazis  and where starved Soviet prisoners of war too weak to work were dumped in death camps, some driven to cannibalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith extracts from the Nuremberg trials of the generals who devastated northern Norway and modern ref\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404591472983,"sku":"9780750989138","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fire-and-ice-9780750989138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}