The Stay Behinds

Summary:

Our Man in Stockholm, as he's known on Substack, takes us behind the scenes of Sweden's secret Cold War. Johan Wennström, Research Fellow at the Swedish Defense University and author of The Stay Behinds: Sweden's Cold War Guardians pieces together a hidden history from archives, interviews, private diaries, and sheds light on the men behind the code words.

What You'll Learn:

• 'The Men of 1949' like Alvar Lindencrona, codenamed 'wild man' which evolved to 'shaggy man'
• Operation Metro
• Military thriller 'Operation Garbo' and the very real Soviet submarine incursions in the Swedish archipelagos

And much, much more...