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Winter - Len Deighton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Winter - Len Deighton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A monumental work ... brilliantly executed'' Daily Telegraph ''The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel'' Sunday Telegraph Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma. But as they grow up the brothers also grow apart. When the shadow of the Third Reich falls they become divided by war and their differing ideals - only to meet again years later at the Nuremberg trials. An epic prelude to the Bernard Samson Game, Set and Match trilogy, Winter is a rich, tragic portrait of the fortunes of a family, and a nation, over half a century.

DKK 127.00
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King Harald's Saga - Snorri Sturluson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

King Harald's Saga - Snorri Sturluson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to his death and marked the end of an era in which Europe had been dominated by the threat of Scandinavian forces. Despite England''s triumph, it also played a crucial part in fatally weakening the English army immediately prior to the Norman Conquest, changing the course of history. Taken from the Heimskringla - Snorri Sturluson''s complete account of Norway from prehistoric times to 1177 - this is a brilliantly human depiction of the turbulent life and savage death of the last great Norse warrior-king.

DKK 126.00
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The Hammer and the Cross - Robert Ferguson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Hammer and the Cross - Robert Ferguson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse gods at Uppsala around 1090. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls ''the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history''. His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia - the eddas, the poetry of the skalds and the sagas - is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries and the evidence of picture-stones, runes, ships and objects scattered all over northern Europe, to make the most convincing modern portrait of the Viking Age in any language. The Hammer and the Cross ranges from Scandinavia itself to Kievan Rus and Byzantium in the east, to Iceland, Greenland and the north American settlements in the west. Beyond its geographical boundaries the book takes us on a journey to a misty region inhabited by Hallfred the Troublesome Poet, Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Hairy-Breeches, Ivar the Boneless and Eyvind the Plagiarist, in which literature, history and myth dissolve into one another.

DKK 152.00
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The Cultural Tutor - Sheehan Quirke - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Cultural Tutor - Sheehan Quirke - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What’s the difference between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism?Is science any different to mythology?Why is the Argentinian flag blue and white?The Cultural Tutor emerged from the depths of Twitter/X in 2022, dispensing elegant missives about poetry, paintings, classical music, architectural design and fascinating and often counter-intuitive facts about history and geography. It explored every continent, every religion, every tradition of art. In short, it was not the sort of content one usually finds on one’s newsfeeds – and yet it has flourished. Now, the author of The Cultural Tutor, writer and blogger Sheehan Quirke, will take everything he’s learned and compile it into an all-encompassing cultural primer. The Cultural Tutor will be a rallying cry for autodidacticism and an antidote to doomscrolling, appealing to everyone from the neophyte to the ‘culture vulture’. Structured around seven ‘pillars’ of culture, from history to architecture to art to philosophy, Sheehan will take readers on a journey from Plato to Messi, from pilasters to Brutalism. In fifty short lessons that range from provocative questions – what makes good art? – to illuminating stories – did you know the Bluetooth symbol was made up of the runic initials of the Viking king Harald Bluetooth? – he will arm the reader with a toolkit that contains everything they’ll need to begin their own ‘beautiful education’.

DKK 182.00
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The Children of Ash and Elm - Neil Price - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Children of Ash and Elm - Neil Price - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR''As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read'' Tom Holland The ''Viking Age'' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This book, the most wide-ranging and comprehensive assessment of the current state of our knowledge, takes a refreshingly different view. It shows that the Viking expansion began generations before the Lindisfarne raid, and traces Scandinavian history back centuries further to see how these people came to be who they were.The narrative ranges across the whole of the Viking diaspora, from Vinland on the eastern American seaboard to Constantinople and Uzbekistan, with contacts as far away as China. Based on the latest archaeology, it explores the complex origins of the Viking phenomenon and traces the seismic shifts in Scandinavian society that resulted from an economy geared to maritime war. Some of its most striking discoveries include the central role of slavery in Viking life and trade, and the previously unsuspected pirate communities and family migrations that were part of the Viking ''armies'' - not least in England.Especially, Neil Price takes us inside the Norse mind and spirit-world, and across their borders of identity and gender, to reveal startlingly different Vikings to the barbarian marauders of stereotype. He cuts through centuries of received wisdom to try to see the Vikings as they saw themselves - descendants of the first human couple, the Children of Ash and Elm. Healso reminds us of the simultaneous familiarity and strangeness of the past, of how much we cannot know, alongside the discoveries that change the landscape of our understanding. This is an eye-opening and surprisingly moving book.

DKK 168.00
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