Scandinavia category: 802 books
Et forfærdeligt Hus-Kors
Eller en sandfærdig Beretning om en gruelig Fristelse, som tvende fromme Ægte-Folk i Kiøge for nogen rum Tid siden har været plagede med
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Den onde Aand Satan, der gaaer omkring som en brølende Løve og søger, hvem han kan opsluge, plager os arme Mennesker i mangfoldige Maader. I somme sætter han an paa Siælen, den enten ved Angst og Banghed piner eller ved Vantro og Ugudelighed ganske støder og dræber og ved alt aandeligt Liv...
by Jacob Holm
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Naar man henvender sig med følgende Beretning til Publikum, da er det nærmest for at imødekomme den Interesse for Marinen, der lever i Nationen og har et gyldigt Krav paa at blive tilfredsstillet.
Det er nu 16 Aar siden, at Korvetten Galathea vendte tilbage fra sin Jordomseiling; ingen dansk...
by Andrey Taranov
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
English-Swedish phrasebook and 250-word mini dictionary
The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic...
Defiant Courage
A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The incredible true story of Jan Baalsrud’s escape from the Nazis in the frigid wilderness of occupied Norway.
In late March 1943, in the depths of the Second World War, four Norwegian commandos arrived by fishing cutter in the cove of Toftefjord in northern Norway. They dropped anchor there,...
The Man Who Stole Himself
The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable...
A Frozen Hell
The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939–1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The true story of the battle between Finland and Russia that erupted at the dawn of World War II.
On a November morning in 1939, Soviet bombers began attacking Helsinki, Finland. In the weeks that followed, the tiny Baltic republic would wage a war—the kind of war that spawns legends—against...
Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier
Winter War 1939–40
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million Russian troops, but rather than sweeping across their...
The Viking Anthology
Norse Myths, Icelandic Sagas and Viking Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This vast ebook Anthology is exploding with masterpieces of world literature, ranging from the peerless Icelandic Sagas, to the Norwegian 'Heimskringla', or the 'Chronicle of the Kings of Norway'. As well as these original texts (in English Translation), are several accompanying great works of scholarship...
Hunting the Nazi Bomb
The Special Forces Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Deadliest Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
A “gripping” and “heart-stopping” account of the combined Norwegian and British sabotage raids to stop Hitler from making an atomic bomb (Saul David, Evening Standard).
Nothing terrified the Allies more than Adolf Hitler’s capacity to build a nuclear weapon. In a heavy water production...
Stalin
The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar [Fully Illustrated]
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, the young Stalin studied to become a priest whilst secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics was to become his religion and between 1902 and 1913 he was arrested for revolutionary activities and exiled to Siberia eight times, escaping on seven...
by R. Nisbet Bain
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
THE present work has no pretention to be anything like an exhaustive biography of Charles XII.--a perfectly adequate treatment of so large and complex a subject would demand many volumes. But it does claim to at least suggest the lines on which such a biography should be written, it professes to present...
by Philip Jowett, Brent Snodgrass
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939–40, and once again in 1941–44, the armies raised by Finland – a tiny nation of only 4 million people astonished the world by their effective resistance. At the end of both these campaigns – the Winter War, and the Continuation War – the fiercely patriotic...
by Max Adams
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.
In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century....
by Julian D. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic culture, whose expansion overseas led them to cross...