Beginning in prehistoric times and culminating with the Dacke rebellion of 1542, renowned novelist Vilhelm Moberg's two-volume popular history of the Swedish people approaches its subject from the viewpoint of the common people, documenting peasants' lives as well as those of the royal families. In this first volume Moberg examines Viking raids, the coming of Christianity, and the Folkungs royal dynasty, whose tyrannical reign lasted from 1250 to the 1360s. He vividly describes the arrival of the Black Death from a ship that docked carrying only dead passengers, and he recounts the reign of Queen Margareta who founded the Kalmar Union, comprising all of Scandinavia. In every chapter, Moberg faithfully imparts how history affected "the whole people" of Sweden.

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1935. Austin's first novel of young Napoleon covers the Emperor's first Italian campaign and his campaign for Josephine. Basil Liddell Hart, one of the greatest ever military strategists, wrote: It carries one along at so breathless a pace that it is only when one pauses for analysis that one realizes the immense amount of knowledge that is woven into it. I wish it all the success it deserves. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEATH. fumes of lyddite yet hung in the air as the loose khaki- clad line burst through the wire entanglements, raced up the last few yards of steep ascent, and flung itself into the abandoned trench. " Blimy " said one of the soldiers, as he lay flat amid a litter of brass cartridge-cases and recovered his breath with an effort. " Never thought we'd get 'ere, Bill." Bill, a thick-set, dirty little man, with a podgy nose and half a week's growth of stubble on his grimedface, made no answer. On hands and knees he was prospecting for water-bottles that might yet contain a little of the precious fluid. Those he found lay with their stoppers out. He was crawling back to an accompaniment of oaths?the meaningless, unconsecutive, violent oaths of a man whose nerves have been kept too long near breaking strain?when he perceived a pair of boots overhanging the upper edge of the chalky trench. He reached up and tugged at them, and a corpse slithered heavily down into the cartridge-strewn ditch, a tiny avalanche of dirt beneath it. As it fell, an arm flopped across and knocked off the thirsty soldier's cap. The action would have terrified a man less accustomed to handlingbodies from which the life had been summarily ejected. It caused barely the half of an oath to go down to Bill's account with the Recording Angel as he snatched at the dead man's flask, and held it to his lips. " Save us a drop, Bill," said the other man, watching him. " My mouth's fair cracked." Bill looked at him, and, the habit of comradeship overcoming his primitive instincts, held out the flask. " There ain't much, Alf," he said, as the other man greedily drank at the bottle. " 'Ere, steady on?give the orf'cer a drop 'E's about done up." A young lieutenant huddled rather than sat just behind the...

1935. Austin's first novel of young Napoleon covers the Emperor's first Italian campaign and his campaign for Josephine. Basil Liddell Hart, one of the greatest ever military strategists, wrote: It carries one along at so breathless a pace that it is only when one pauses for analysis that one realizes the immense amount of knowledge that is woven into it. I wish it all the success it deserves. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1935. Austin's first novel of young Napoleon covers the Emperor's first Italian campaign and his campaign for Josephine. Basil Liddell Hart, one of the greatest ever military strategists, wrote: It carries one along at so breathless a pace that it is only when one pauses for analysis that one realizes the immense amount of knowledge that is woven into it. I wish it all the success it deserves. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

In the second volume of his vivid history of the Swedes, Vilhelm Moberg brings his focus on the common people to bear on a period that included two dramatic revolts: the national insurrection under Engelbrekt and the last desperate attempt of the Smaland peasantry to retain their medieval liberties - a defiance bloodily crushed by King Gustav Vasa. Using a wide variety of local historical source materials, Moberg studies the ruthless monarch Vasa and his two tragic opponents: the psychopathic Christian II of Denmark and Nils Dracke, the leader of the Smalanders. Furthermore, he examines the enigmatic and wide appeal of the Swedish forest and investigates the origins of the Swedish hatred of Danes, which was implanted by propaganda through songs commissioned by Karl VIII's chancellery. Moberg's history has been widely hailed by the Swedish press as a masterpiece of popular history writing and has been an all-time best-seller in Swedish bookstores.