from the library - the Shetland bus

 

Despite the title, this is not a book about buses, rather small vessels (mostly fishing boats, later three submarine chasers as well) that made their way between Norway and the Shetland Islands north of the British mainland during WW2 as escape and supply vessels for the Norwegian Resistance against the German occupiers. The first edition of this book was published in 1951 and is a worthwhile read.