A Cold Reception

A largely forgotten chapter of the Second World War was the occupation of neutral Iceland by British forces in 1940. Alex Bowers looks at the importance of that occupation and its implementation through ‘Operation Fork’

British war graves in Fossvogur Cemetery, Reykjavik.
(VIA MAGNÚS ÞÓR HAFSTEINSSON)

WORLD WAR TWO | BRITISH OCCUPATION OF ICELAND

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