Howarth, David

In 1943, a group of brave Danish and Norwegian hunters carried out one of the more dramatic operations of World War II. Their mission was to patrol a section of the Greenland coast and to guard against any of the enemy coming ashore. It seemed an unlikely scenario, given the cruel climate. But one day a footprint was spotted on desolate Sabine Island, along with other enemy signs. Not expecting the find this trouble, Sledge Patrol members fled to the nearest hunting hut, only to be pursued by the Germans. In the dead of the Arctic night, the men escaped capture at the last instant and without their coats or sled dogs, walked fifty-six miles to get back to their base.

A World War II escape narrative, telling the story of how Jan Baalsrud, a member of a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos who were ambushed on their way to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance, managed to evade the Nazis and make his way to a small arctic village whose residents were determined to save him.