Henrik O. Lunde, der nach seiner Zeit als Colonel der Special Forces in der US-Armee zum Schriftsteller wurde, verbindet taktisches Wissen mit strategischem Überblick. Seine Werke konzentrieren sich auf seine nordische Heimat und bieten bahnbrechende Analysen militärischer Ereignisse. Er untersucht historische Konflikte und die Rolle militärischer Fähigkeiten in globalen Angelegenheiten. Seine Schriften bieten eine einzigartige Perspektive auf vergangene und gegenwärtige strategische Herausforderungen, wobei er stets seine tiefen Einblicke in Kriegsführung und Strategie einbringt.
This book examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia.
A thorough examination of one of history’s revolutionary campaigns . . . After Hitler conquered Poland, and while still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British began to exert control of the coastline of neutral Norway, an action that threatened to cut off Germany’s iron-ore conduit to Sweden and outflank from the start its hegemony on the Continent. The air, airborne, sea, amphibious, infantry, armor and commando aspects of this brief but violent campaign are here covered in meticulous detail. Henrik Lunde, a native Norwegian and former U.S. Special Operations colonel, has written perhaps the most objective account to date of a campaign in which 20th century military innovation found its first fertile playing field.