Between the 8th and 11th centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, plunder, explore, and invade, from Newfoundland to Baghdad. They are alternately seen as great seafarers and desperate outcasts, noble heathens and oafish pirates, the last pagans and the first of the modern Europeans. This concise study of Viking history aligns medieval chronicles, Norse sagas, and Muslim accounts with modern genetic profiling and climatology. It explains why the Danish king Harald Bluetooth lent his name to a 21st-century wireless technology; which future saint laughed as she buried foreign ambassadors alive; and how the Vikings ultimately became us.

Language: English
Pages: 273
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 13 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 51/2“ x 8“
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 0.75
ISBN: 9.78185E+12
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Miscellaneous: Bibl. Index.


Code: 6477
Condition: In Pristine Condition
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This beautiful and informative book is filled with compelling photographs which are an inspiring addition to the thoughtfully written text about the history of Christiansborg over the last 100 years. Christiansborg is built upon the ruins of Absalon’s old fortress from 1167; these ruins can still be seen in the basement of Christiansborg. The central nerve of Christiansborg is of course the parliament, however Christiansborg contain the judiciary and the other parts of the government, in addition to the royal riding stables, theatre, the royal church. A magnificient historic building in the center of Copenhagen.

Language: Danish
Pages: 238
Illustrations: 192 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11“ x 11“
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 4.75
ISBN: 9.7887E+12
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Miscellaneous: Bios.


Code: 6156
Condition: In Pristine Condition
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This description of the events in 1864 is intended to be as accurate as possible, partly to get rid of myths, partly to establish facts, so that the publication in a sober way may contribute to the spread of knowledge in this central event in the history of Denmark. The publication has been made for everybody interested in the history of Denmark.

Language: English
Pages: 37
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 45 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 6 1/2“ x 8 1/2“
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: None
Edition:
Weight: 0.25
ISBN: 8789022289
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Miscellaneous: Bibl.


Code: 6412
Condition: In Pristine Condition
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The Danish Constitution in its entirety.

Language: Danish
Pages: 47
Illustrations: 1 Color Illustrations. 1 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8“ x 6“
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 0.25
ISBN: 8777170814
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Code: 6138
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: Latest

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In late March 1943, in the midst of WWII, four Norwegian saboteurs arrived in northern Norway on a fishing cutter and set anchor in Toftefjord to establish a base for their operations. However, they were betrayed, and a German boat attacked the cutter, creating a battlefield and spiraling Jan Baalsrud into the adventure of his life. The only survivor and wounded, Baalsrud begins a perilous journey to freedom, swimming icy fjords, climbing snow-covered peaks, enduring snowstorms, and getting caught in a monstrous avalanche. Suffering from snowblindness and frostbite, more than sixty people of the Troms District risk their lives to help Baalsrud to freedom. Meticulously researched for more than five years, Karlsen Scott and Haug bring forth the truth behind this captivating, edge-of-your-seat, real-life survival story.

Language: English
Pages: 366
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 117 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9“ x 6“
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9.78162E+12
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Code: 6698
Condition: In Pristine Condition
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This large and beautiful volume is a successful attempt to recapture the 19th century Italian way of life and atmosphere. The aim of the book is to look at the Italy which changed Andersen and helped him to achieve full maturity as a writer. This grand book is beautifully illustrated, painters shown are C.W.Eckersberg, Martinus Rørbye, J.C.Dahl, J.Th.Lundbye, Wilhelm Marstrand, Christen Købke, Jørgen Roed and many more.

Language: Danish
Pages: 437
Illustrations: 183 Color Illustrations. 137 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10“ x 10 1/2“
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Subcategory: Survey
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Weight: 6.50
ISBN: 8702033909
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Miscellaneous: Bibl.


Code: 5710
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: Latest

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The Swedish Red Cross expedition to the German concentration camps from March to April 1945 was the largest rescue effort inside Germany during WWII. Led by Count Bernadotte of Wisborg, the mission became known for its distinctive buses: Each bus was purposefully painted entirely white except for the Red Cross emblem on the side so that they would not be mistaken for military targets. According to conservative figures in May 1945, at least 17,000 prisoners were transported to Sweden by these white buses. Included are exclusive never-before-published photographs of the bus journeys.

Language: English
Pages: 274
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 15 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9 1/2“ x 6 1/2“
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9.7816E+12
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Miscellaneous: Bio. Index.


Code: 6701
Condition: In Pristine Condition
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The German conquest of Denmark and Norway in spring 1940 presents an interesting study of joint strategy between ground, air, and sea forces. In this campaign, the Germans placed great emphasis on mobility, speed, and surprise. The Fallschirmjäger of 1940 was a well-trained, highly-motivated force, and their participation in Operation “ œWeserübung“ “ “ the codename for the Wehrmacht assault on Denmark and Norway “ “ is this subject of this book. Among the topics discussed are German paratroop operations (some of the first combat jumps of the war) against the main Danish and Norwegian bridges and aerodromes, the jump on DombÃ¥s, behind enemy lines, and also their tenacious resistance on the snow-covered grounds of Narvik.

Language: English
Pages: 192
Illustrations: 20 Color Illustrations. 148 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9“ x 6“
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9.78076E+12
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Code: 6462
Condition: In Pristine Condition
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After Adolph Hitler made plans to create a “ �model protectorate“ out of Denmark, Winston Churchill predicted the nation would become the Führer’s tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride, the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the Nazis’ side. German troops were stymied again and again by the sabotage of railways and airbases and some 7,000 Jews were carried to safety in Sweden. They were not soldiers�they were simply ordinary citizens who refused to stand idly by and witness an atrocity. The story of their selfless courage and daring should inspire countless future generations.

Language: English
Pages: 237
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 15 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9 1/2“ x 6 1/2“
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9.78161E+12
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Code: 6702
Condition: In Pristine Condition
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Near the end of her life, Mina Anderson wrote a lively, intimate memoir, a piece so interesting and informative that renowned Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg used it to shape the central female character of his beloved emigrant novels. But Moberg’s archetypical Swedish settler “ œKristina“ is lonely and depressed, constantly yearning for her homeland.Mina’s story was quiet different.Shocasing this previously untranslated memoir, I Go To America traces Mina’s trip across the Atlantic to Wisconsin and then to the Twin Cities, where she worked as a domestic servant. It explores her move to rural Mille Lacs County, where she and her husband worked a farm, raised seven children, and contributed widely to rural Swedish community life through her poetry, fiction, and letters to Swedish American newspapers.

Language: English
Pages: 294
Illustrations: Some B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9“ x 6“
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 1.25
ISBN: 9.78087E+12
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Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Index. Bibl. Bio.


Code: 5743
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Price: $29.95

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