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Bru Ships Youtube Channel

...the author has presented an excellent overview of naval warfare during the first eight months of WW2.

Forum Navale 2016 - Lt. Commander Bengt Larsson

This is a highly recommended addition to Geirr Haarr's stable of Seaforth titles.

Warship Annual

Haar presents a balanced and well researched picture of the opening months of the naval conflict during World War Two. He presents convincing arguments without bias. A vast collection of photographs and other archival material help complete the image Haar creates. Information in the appendices is thoroughly researched and supports Haar's arguments. Although a great deal of detail is presented, Haar does not lose sight of the larger argument and constantly references back to his key arguments.

Nautical Research Journal

An insightful account of an aspect of the war at sea that has been glossed over at best...As a Norwegian, Haarr's treatment of the Altmark affair provides the reader with the Norwegian side of the story...Haarr should be congratulated on this well-constructed history. Although many aspects of the war at sea during the period he covers is well known to Second World War historians, the appendices alone are themselves worth the price of the book. They reflect the diligence the author placed on his reesearch.

Mariner's Mirror

A well researched and thoughtful work with the additional merit that it is written from a Norwegian perspective by someone who does not see things in the way that a British or German writer might.
A fresh new look at a period of the Second World War that is often overshadowed by later events and adds positively to the bibliography of the war. A very readable book

Austraian Naval Institute

Using primary sources such as formal reports, as well as private material and memoirs, the author paints a picture of the war at sea during these early months of the conflict. The result is a detailed account of a significant but often neglected period of the war at sea.

Ships Monthly

A top-of-the-line examination of operations in north European waters during the first eight months of the war. This is by far the best work on that subject, with a full range of strategic insights and unexpected details. Highly recommended.

Stone & Stone

Profusely illustrated with masses of photographs and maps throughout, this outstanding book completes the trilogy and forms a splendid reference source on this important campaign. Most strongly recommended.

Scuttlebutt - Journal of the Friends of the Royal Naval Museum

An outstanding work of naval history which provides a definitive account of the 'phoney war' at sea...it is probably destined to be recognised as the most important naval work of 2013. Excellent and very highly recommended.

Marine News

By his meticulous research, with supportive notes and appendices, Geirr Haarr gives us what may well be a definitive account of the beginning of the naval war in Northern Europe.

Warship World