Sovereign state in a personal union with the Danish crown, established by the Act of Union of 1 December 1918. Iceland controlled its own affairs while sharing the monarch and (until 1944) delegating foreign policy to Denmark.
Union with Denmark dissolved and the Republic of Iceland proclaimed on 17 June 1944, during the wartime Allied occupation.
The standard single-volume English history of Iceland, covering the home-rule and union era through independence.