Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Acknowledgments xiv
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. War Historiography
7. Introduction 17
8. Chapter 1. Finland in World War II: Tragedy, Survival, and Good Wars 21
9. Chapter 2. Danish Historical Narratives of the Occupation: The Promises and Lies of the 9th of April 35
10. Chapter 3. The Norwegian War Experience: Occupied and Allied 49
11. Chapter 4. The Icelandic National Narrative and World War II: “Freedom and Culture” 65
12. Chapter 5. Sweden’s Ambiguous War: Contradiction and Controversy 81
13. Part II. War Literature: Archive
14. Introduction 97
15. Chapter 6. Karin Boye as Ambivalent Spectator of Fascism 101
16. Chapter 7. Isak Dinesen in Hitler’s Berlin: Neutrality’s Cloak in “Letters from a Land at War” 116
17. Chapter 8. Sigrid Undset’s Problematic Propaganda: The Call for Democracy in Return to the Future 136
18. Part III. War Literature: Canon
19. Introduction 151
20. Chapter 9. Hans Christian Branner: Angst and the Existential Crisis of War in Denmark 155
21. Chapter 10. Crises of Memory in Norway’s Occupation Novel: Sigurd Hoel’s Meeting at the Milestone 169
22. Chapter 11. The Battle over Finnish Cultural Memory of War: Väinö Linna’s Th e Unknown Soldier 185
23. Chapter 12. Investigating Sweden’s Postwar Neutrality: Ethics in Per Olov Enquist’s Th e Legionnaires 202
24. Chapter 13. The Allied Occupation of Iceland: Indriði G. Þorsteinsson’s North of War 216
25. Part IV. War Cinema: Remembering and Forgetting
26. Introduction 233
27. Chapter 14. Somewhere in Sweden: Quality Fiction and Popularized History in the World War II Television Series 237
28. Erik Hedling Chapter 15. Icelandic Cinema and the American Military Presence: Th e Girl Gogo, Atomic Station, and Devil’s Island 252
29. Chapter 16. War Memory, Compassion, and the Finnish Child: Klaus Härö’s Mother of Mine 269
30. Chapter 17. The War Film as Cultural Memory in Denmark: April 9th and Land of Mine 282
31. Chapter 18. Acts of Remembering: Audiovisual Memory and the New Norwegian Occupation Drama 302
32. Chapter 19. Finland Returning to War on Screen: Th e Unknown Soldier of 2017 314
33. Epilogue 330
34. Index 333