Journey to London. By DI Lehmkuhl. (Hutchinson. 10s. 6d.)
THIS story of the flight to England in 1940 of King Haakon and the Norwegian Government reads more like a wild and very woolly Western than a serious record of events. It is to be regretted that Mr. Lehmkuhl did not exercise more restraint, for the story of the flight of a King and Government from Oslo across the mountains and fjords of Norway, which ended at last on the deck of the British cruiser which brought them to England, is tremendously exciting. For the whole of this period the party was harried and hunted by the advancing Germans, who were rarely more than a few miles behind them, and their attempt under these conditions to organise their country for defence is far more ,interesting than any fiction. Even in the comparative security of bomb-blasted London the story of the creation (4 an organisation which could take over the large Norwegian merchant fleet, organise the Resistance Move- ment and carry out the hundred different tasks facing an exiled Government is a tale which could well be left to tell itself unadorned.
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