Drawing on a distinguished career as a U.S. Army Colonel in Special Forces, Henrik O. Lunde brings a unique perspective to military history and strategy. After his service, he turned to writing, focusing on his native North and leveraging his tactical expertise alongside strategic insight. His groundbreaking works delve into pivotal historical conflicts, offering fresh analyses of military decisions and their global implications. He continues to explore the effectiveness of military skill in international affairs, examining both historical events and contemporary challenges.
This book examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia.
Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germany's strategy in the north of the Soviet Union, as the tide of war turned, and gigantic Russian armies began to close in on Berlin. In this long- awaited work, Henrik Lunde-former U.S.
A thorough examination of one of history’s revolutionary campaigns . . . After Hitler conquered Poland, and while still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British began to exert control of the coastline of neutral Norway, an action that threatened to cut off Germany’s iron-ore conduit to Sweden and outflank from the start its hegemony on the Continent. The air, airborne, sea, amphibious, infantry, armor and commando aspects of this brief but violent campaign are here covered in meticulous detail. Henrik Lunde, a native Norwegian and former U.S. Special Operations colonel, has written perhaps the most objective account to date of a campaign in which 20th century military innovation found its first fertile playing field.