Britain's campaign in Norway in the early days of World War II - spring, 1940 - was the first military action in history in which the three arms - naval, military and air - were employed in cooperation. For the British the campaign was a school in which bitter lessons were learned, bitter losses suffered. But the lessons, costly and demoralizing as they were in the early days of combat following the Sitzkrieg were of incalculable value to Great Britain and her Allies in the five years of bloody combat which were to follow. Narvik is a detailed examination of the whole Norwegian campaign with particular emphasis on the efforts of both the Germans and the British to place troops in and secure the strategically important little town of Narvik in northern Norway. The contest - eventually won by the Germans - involved both sides in furious action on land and sea and in the air, and Captain Macintyre considers each of these in fascinating detail. -- From the book jacket.