Over the Border" manifests the importance of Swedish land for Norwegian irregular military resistance to Nazi Germany's occupation in the latter half of World War II. Europe's longest land border (160 miles), which both divides and unites the Scandinavian peninsula, does not prevent armed Norwegians from increasingly crossing the boundaries of Swedish "hospitality". Agents, commandos and saboteurs use Swedish border areas for courier routes, staging areas, supply lines and even bases and weapons depots. Persecuted and threatened with death, resistance fighters - and women - escape the Gestapo by fleeing to Sweden. All kinds of people in the border areas, from individual Swedish civilians to bailiffs, soldiers and customs officers, stand up for the "brother people". On the Swedish side, the authorities' informal response during the final years of the war was to push the boundaries of the official policy of neutrality and, in some cases, to abandon it in favor of the Norwegians. In the final stages of the Second World War, US General Eisenhower even considers an Allied invasion of Norway - across the border from West Sweden - if the German armed forces refuse to surrender. But after Hitler commits suicide in the Berlin bunker, the break-up is peaceful - a miracle. Senior German officers realize that resistance is hopeless, despite numerically superior occupation troops in Norway. The book is based on the stories of a dozen personalities, Swedes and Norwegians, British and Germans, who all experienced the "Border".