INCIDENT IN REYKJAVIK

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During World War II, Adolph Hitler coveted Iceland for use as a base to eliminate convoys between the United States and Britain. German Patrol aircraft and U-boats based there would wreak havoc on allied shipping. After examining the operational problems involved, Hitler decided against invading Iceland . . . or did he?

Lieutenant Ron Young and his platoon were part of the Marine Corps contingent sent in mid 1941 to relieve the British forces that were occupying Iceland against the threat of German invasion. America and Germany were not at war, but if the Germans came, the Marines would have to fight. As the snow falls, Lieutenant Young is training his ski platoon to a fine edge and waiting for what will come. Across the Norwegian Sea in Trondheim, Captain Helmut Werth, with his elite force of German paratroopers, waits for the day.

What happened there and how it affected the participants in the years that followed is a compelling story of the heady days of a world at war. From Iceland to Guadalcanal to the peacetime Marines, Korea, and then Iceland again under NATO, “Incident at Reykjavik” is a saga of the Marine Corps and the men and women whose lives and loves were a part of it.

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