Hitler’s Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 (108 page)

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PRO,
WO
106/1882 45965 and Connell,
Auchinleck
, p. 149. Churchill was unhappy with Auchinleck’s performance as illustrated by a notation quoted in Adams,
The Doomed Expedition
, p. 281: “I hope before any fresh appointments is given to General Auchinleck, the whole story of the slack and feeble manner in which the operations at Narvik were conducted, and the failure to make an earlier assault on Narvik town, will be considered …” The general’s frank critique of the operations probably did not improve his standings in certain circles in London.

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Joseph H. Devins Jr.,
The Vaagso Raid
, (Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1968), p. 202.

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As quoted in David Reynolds,
In Command of History
(New York: Random House, 2005), p. 125.