The Day Will Dawn

Colin Metcalfe is placed as a foreign correspondent in neutral Norway in September 1939. He meets a Norwegian fisherman, Captain Alstad, in a sailors' bar, where a scuffle breaks out between British and German sailors. Alstad takes him aboard his boat during a sea voyage in Norway's territorial waters, during which they sight the Altmark and are fired upon by a German U boat. They then come back to his home port of Langedal to report this to the British embassy there, despite the best efforts of the German Kommandant and the German-sympathising local police chief Ottoman Gun