{"product_id":"fire-ice-5","title":"Fire \u0026 Ice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Hitler ordered the north of Nazi-occupied Norway to be destroyed in a scorched earth retreat in 1944, everything of potential use to the Soviet enemy was destroyed. \u003c\/b\u003eHarbours, bridges and towns were dynamited and every building torched. Fifty thousand people were forcibly evacuated – thousands more fled to hide in caves in sub-zero temperatures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh above the Arctic Circle, the author crosses the region gathering scorched earth stories: of refugees starving on remote islands, fathers shot dead just days before the war ended, grandparents driven mad by relentless bombing, towns burned to the ground. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe explores what remains of the Lyngen Line mountain bunkers in the Norwegian Alps, where the Allies feared a last stand by fanatical Nazis – and where starved Soviet prisoners of war too weak to work were dumped in death camps, some driven to cannibalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith extracts from the Nuremberg trials of the generals who devastated northern Norway and modern reflections on the mental scars that have passed down generations, this is a journey into the heart of a brutal conflict set in a landscape of intense natural beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57516078530942,"sku":"NW9780750989138","price":16.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780750989138.jpg?v=1780684973","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/fire-ice-5","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}