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The Battle of the Pacific

Niklas Zetterling

The Pacific War was the most extensive and costly naval campaign ever fought. Initially the Imperial Japanese Navy attained its strategic goals, but over time they met with increasingly powerful American resistance. The Battle of Midway is the best ...

Vasa 1628

The Vasa, 1628 – the people, the ship, the times

Anders Wahlgren

The Vasa – this ship is a national treasure about which there is still a great deal to tell. Here we are taken back to Stockholm in the 1620s. King Gustav II Adolf already had a lot of power, but wanted even more. He ordered the construction of the b ...

De dödas tempel

The temple of the dead – The hunt for the solution to the Stone Age mystery

Jonathan Lindström

Buried about a foot or so down in the soil lay the carefully sorted remains of sixteen children and adults. They had lain there in the darkness since the Stone Age, surrounded by the most beautiful objects of their time in flint, bone and ceramics ar ...

Vampyrernas historia

The history of vampires

Katarina Harrison Lindbergh

This book is a colourful and thorough overview of vampires and ideas about vampires over the ages. The reader is taken on a journey from the blood-thirsty demons of Mesopotamia to the vampires in the TV series True Blood, as dangerous as they are sen ...

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Two dear enemies – Churchill and de Gaulle

Knut Ståhlberg

Two dear enemies, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, walked together down the Champs Elysées to the cheering of the crowds. A dream had come true. ‘Churchill is a gangster,’ de Gaulle had said just a few months earlier. And Churchill had given ...

I Stalins våld

In Stalin’s Grip

Artur Szulc

During two years, the Soviet communist regime murdered, arrested and tortured Polish citizens in eastern Poland. The communists also deported about 320 000 Polish citizens from Eastern Poland to remote areas in the Soviet Union. Many of them perished ...

Vladimir Putin

Vladislav Savic

“Why do you dislike us Russians so much?” my good friend Nikolai asks me when I visit him in Moscow in December 2008. His question is justified – in Sweden we are again hearing demands that our defence forces must be built up to protect us from the ‘ ...

Berättelser från ett land som inte finns

Stories from a country that doesn’t exist

Torgny Hinnemo

The country called the Soviet Union doesn’t exist any longer. But the people who were born there do. Journalist Torgny Hinnemo tells of meetings and episodes from forty years of travelling in Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus/White Russia, Moldova, Centra ...

Dambusters

The Dambusters

Michael Tamelander

May 16, 1943. While the fading light of an early summer’s evening colours the flat Lincolnshire landscape, 19 Lancaster bomber planes and their crews take off from the RAF base at Scampton. The target: a decisive blow to the energy supply for the Ger ...

Hitler mot Stalin

Hitler Against Stalin

Niklas Zetterling

At dawn on the 22nd of June, 1941, the Germans attacked the Soviet Union. Hitler had been working towards this goal for a long time, and when the German armed forces surprised the Soviet defence, it looked as if his ambitions would soon be satisfied. ...

Kleopatra

Cleopatra

Allan Klynne

Was she the girl next door or one of history’s most gifted women? A profligate or a devoted mother? Or maybe all of them at once? One of the most fascinating figures in history, Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE) is among the few women of anci ...

Breven från Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima

Yukiko Duke

It’s 1944, and American offensives are capturing one Pacific island after another. Pressed for time, Lieutenant-General Kuribayashi feverishly prepares Iwo Jima for an onslaught. “The enemy is about to land,” writes Kuribayashi. “The fighting will b ...

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With the courage of despair

Mathias Forsberg

On the basis of unpublished witness accounts, documents from archives, memoirs and recent research, in With the courage of despair Mathias Forsberg and Artur Szulc tell the story of the Polish army’s desperate battles in September, 1939, and its cont ...

Vrak i Östersjön

Wrecks in the Baltic Sea

Björn Hagberg

One of the most exciting unexplored areas on the planet is the Baltic Sea. It is the home of the remains of as many as 100,000 wrecks from more than one thousand years of seafaring and war. The Baltic Sea is unique on account of its low salinity gra ...

Midway 1942

Johan Lupander

In June 1942, one of the strangest battles in military history took place off the Midway Islands. For the first time ever, two opposing forces went to battle without being in direct contact – the two fleets were located nearly 200 kilometres apart. T ...

Tjerkassy '44

Anders Frankson

Eastern Front, January 1944. When Operation Korzun was launched, it was the first time two Russian tank armies spearheaded an attack. The Soviet commander Konjev’s tactics were successful and 55,000 German soldiers were encircled. The Soviet version ...

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