A Norwegian tragedy : Anders Behring Breivik and the massacre on Utøya
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A Norwegian tragedy : Anders Behring Breivik and the massacre on Utøya
Polity, c2013
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En norsk tragedie
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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 sixty-nine people, mostly teenagers.
How could Anders Behring Breivik - a middle-class boy 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 1500-page manifesto.
This is the definitive story of 22 July 2011: a Norwegian tragedy.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
1 The Explosion 1
2 Bacardi Razz 7
3 A West End Family: Anders Behring Breivik's Childhood 25
4 Morning on Utoya 45
5 Morg the Graffiti Bomber: Anders Behring Breivik's Youth 59
6 The 'Mother of the Nation' Returns to Utoya 94
7 Andrew Berwick and Avatar Syndrome 111
8 The Safest Place in Norway 148
9 The Book Launch 161
10 Survivors 181
11 Rescuers 197
12 What Is Happening in Norway? 210
13 Anders Behring Breivik's Seventy-Five Minutes on Utoya 226
14 Hatred 247
Notes 273
Acknowledgements 287
Index 288
by "Nielsen BookData"
