Original issue, US Army Center of Military History Publication, 353 pages plus 9 fold out maps, size is 6" x 9", stapled, dated December 1959. This is not a commercial copy or print but an original issue government print issued in 1959 and republished in 1989. This is part of the German Report Series and was written by senior German officers during the 1950's and are only from the German point of view. All reports are in paperback only and were originally issued as a DA Pam 20-271. This publication is titled - CMH Pub 104-23, The Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945. Earl Zeimke's two part study, specifically focusing on operations, tactics, terrain and weather in sub-Arctic areas, surveys German operations in Norway and Denmark in 1940 and in Finland from 1941 through 1944. Illustrated with balck and white photographs.