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Quisling - A Study in Treachery (Hardcover)
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Quisling - A Study in Treachery (Hardcover)
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Vidkun Quisling is world infamous, his name synonymous with
treachery. This lucid account of the man's life, the first to be
founded on his family archive, shows that he believed he did all
for the best. It covers his bright childhood as a Norwegian
pastor's son and his early career as a regular army officer. He
left the army, took up philosophy and was drawn insensibly into the
Nazis' web. When Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, Quisling
took power momentarily when the govenment seemed to have run away,
later becoming prime minister of the occupied country for several
years. He surrendered power quietly in May 1945 and was shot after
a show trial, still believing he had done all that he should.
(Kirkus UK)
The word "Quisling" has been used as a synonym for "traitor" or "treachery." The original Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) was a gifted Norwegian army officer who sided with the Nazis on the first day of Norway's entry into the Second World War. Dahl's biography is the first to use a complete range of source material from Nordic, German, Italian and Russian archives, and family archives now in the United States tracing Quisling's career through to the drama of his trial and execution for high treason in 1945.
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