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On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe. In a carefully orchestrated sequence of actions he bombed government buildings in Oslo, resulting in eight deaths, then carried out a mass shooting at a camp of the Workers' Youth League of the Labour Party on the island of Utoya, where he murdered 69 people, mostly teenagers. How could Anders Behring Breivik - a seemingly normal middle-class kid from the West End of Oslo - end up as one of the most violent terrorists in post-war Europe? Where did his hatred come from? In A Norwegian Tragedy , Aage Borchgrevink attempts to provide an answer. Taking us with him to the multiethnic and class-divided city where Breivik grew up, he follows the perpetrator of the attacks into an unfamiliar online world of violent computer games and anti-Islamic hatred, and demonstrates the connection between Breivik's childhood and the darkest pages of his diary and other writings. This is the definitive story of 22 July 2011: a Norwegian tragedy.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political activism

• Full title: Norwegian Tragedy - Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utoya
• Author: Aage Borchgrevink
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780745672205
• ISBN: 0745672205
• ID: 02178717
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 594 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 151 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. November 2013

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