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Monday 9 November 2026No. 15The ShelfBack to the front page

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Every book about Svalbard that two catalogues confirm, oldest first: 796 works, checked 8 November 2026.

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The war 1940 to 1945

Works whose subject headings name the war and whose period overlaps 1940 to 1945.

Published 1945 to 2016, 19 works

Rebuilt 25 October 2026

  1. En håndfull nordmenn: forpostene i ishavet, 1945 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  2. Svalbard under og etter verdenskrigen, 1946 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  3. Wetterflieger in der Arktis: Kriegserlebnisse des Flugzeugführers Rudolf Schütze, 1950 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years, at Longyearbyen.
  4. Wettertrupp Haudegen: eine deutsche Arktisexpedition 1944/45, 1954 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  5. Med England i ildlinjen: 1940-42, 1956 Covers 1900 to 1999: the war years.
  6. Nordenfor nord, 1968 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  7. North of danger, 1978 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  8. Krigens Svalbard, 1979 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  9. Arctic airmen: the RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia in 1942, 1987 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  10. Kalde krigsår: den norske innsats på og for Svalbard 1940-1945, 1990 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  11. Brennpunkt Nord: værtjenestekrigen 1940-45, 1991 Covers 1900 to 1999: the war years.
  12. War in the Arctic, 1991 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  13. Hopen: ishavsøy og meteorologisk stasjon: norsk-arktisk værtjeneste: den tysk-arktiske værtjenesten 1940-45, 1994 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years, on Hopen.
  14. Kongen av Sassen Bay: fangstfolkenes historie, 1995 Covers 1900 to 1999: the war years.
  15. Menn av is og kulde: kampen om Svalbard, 2000 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  16. Frå Svalbard til Odessa: på flukt gjennom krigen, 2006 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  17. Gefangen im arktischen Eis: Wettertrupp "Haudegen": die letzte deutsche Arktisstation des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 2006 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.
  18. Kapringen: isbryteren "Isbjørn" og evakueringen av Svalbard, 2012 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years, at Longyearbyen.
  19. Kongen av Spitsbergen: Einar Sverdrups kamp for gruvene og mot Nazi-Tyskland, 2016 Covers 1939 to 1945: the war years.