Historian Roar Løken has written an authoritative chronicle about military resistance, sabotage, and anti-sabotage in the Telemark and Buskerud regions bordering the Hardangervidda mountain plateau during World War II in occupied Norway.

This is the story about the resistant movement Milorg in district number 16 and how they operated in and around the towns of Rjukan, Kongsberg and Notodden from the April days in 1940 until the liberation in 1945. Løken tells about organization, recruitment and training, weapons deliveries from UK, fearless women in the resistance struggle, intelligence organizations such as SIS and XU, communist groups, cooperation with Norwegian Independent Company 1 and the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), liquidations, the heavy water sabotage operations and in the final phase of the war; Operation Sunshine.