Quisling: A Study in Treachery
by Hans Fredrik Dahl
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The word 'Quisling' is used all over the world as a synonym for 'traitor' or 'treachery'. The original Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) was a gifted Norwegian army officer who earned notoriety when he sided with the Nazis on the first day of Norway's entry into the Second World War. Quisling's coup d'état in Oslo on 9 April 1940 was immediately denounced as an act of arch-treason, and even Churchill spoke of 'the vile race of Quislings'. Hans Fredrik Dahl's 1999 biography makes use of a complete show more range of source material from Nordic, German, Italian and Russian archives, and of family archives now in the USA. He traces Quisling's ultimately futile career from his earlier internationalist career as a diplomat and businessman to the drama of his trial and execution for high treason in 1945. show lessTags
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- Vidkun Quisling
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- World War II
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- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 948.104 — History & geography History of Europe Northern Europe: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland Norway
- LCC
- DL529 .Q5 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Northern Europe. Scandinavia History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia Norway History By period 20th century. Period of World War II, 1939-1945
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- English, Norwegian (Bokmål)
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