In this introductory guide, Knud Jespersen traces the process of disintegration and reduction that helped to form the modern Danish state, and the historical roots of Denmark's international position. Beginning with the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Jespersen explains how the Denmark of today was shaped by wars, territorial losses, domestic upheavals, new methods of production, and changes in thought. Focusing on the interplay between history, politics and economics, this illuminating text offers an insider’s view of Danish identity formation over the last centuries. This engaging textbook is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on Danish, Scandinavian or Nordic History. Concise and accessible, it will also appeal to anyone interested in gaining a clear understanding of the development of Denmark.

A History of Denmark (Bloomsbury Essential Histories, 50)

History

Jespersen, Knud J.V.

Europe

Bloomsbury Academic

A History of Denmark (Bloomsbury Essential Histories, 31)

Red Globe Press

Med hjaelp fra England: Special Operations Executive og den danske modstandskamp 1940-1945 (Odense University studies in history and social sciences) (Danish Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Odense universitetsforlag

No Small Achievement follows the build-up of the Danish Section with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the top-secret sabotage organization, which was part of the resistance movement in WWII. On the basis of archives just accessible in London it has finally been possible to describe the Danish Resistance Movement during the Second World War from an English point of view. From the beginning of 1940 the Special Operations Executive developed from an idea into a world-wide organization of about 13,000 men and women of whom about 5,000 were active behind enemy lines. The intention was that the organization should support the resistance movements in the occupied territories as part of Britain's struggle for survival against Hitler's Germany. Denmark, at first, was not too keen on resistance and this book follows the laborious build-up of the Danish SOE Section from a few isolated acts of sabotage into a comprehensive resistance movement. The book contains a total evaluation of the SOE activities in Denmark from the summer 1940 to the dissolution of the organization in the autumn of 1945.

No Small Achievement: Special Operations Executive and the Danish Resistance 1940-1945

Univ Pr of Southern Denmark

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