THE SHADOW DISTRICT

BY ARNALDUR INDRIDASON HARVILL SECKER OUT 18 MAY TRANSLATED BY VICTORIA CRIBB

By JONATHAN WRIGHT

“RARELY HAS THE PRESENCE OF A CREAKY DETECTIVE SEEMED SO APPOSITE” On 10 May 1940, a force of Royal Marines landed in Reykjavik. They encountered no resistance. So began five years when Allied troops – first British and Canadian, later American – occupied Iceland as a way to deny Germany from establishing a military presence on an island crucial to control of the North Atlantic. If we Brits have chosen to forget invading a neutral neighbour, perhaps because it doesn’t sit well with our narrative of plucky resistance to Nazi aggression, Icelanders certainly haven’t. It is, after all, difficult to overlook a period in your recent history when 40,000 US troops were stationed in a country with a population of just 120,000 people. It’s these events that form the backdrop…

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