Borchgrevink A Norwegian Tragedy

Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Ut?ya
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8002-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, E-Book

On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carriedout one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe. In acarefully orchestrated sequence of actions he bombed governmentbuildings in Oslo, resulting in eight deaths, then carried out amass shooting at a camp of the Workers' Youth League of theLabour Party on the island of Utøya, where he murderedsixty-nine people, mostly teenagers.
How could Anders Behring Breivik - a middle-class boy from the WestEnd of Oslo - end up as one of the most violent terrorists inpost-war Europe? Where did his hatred come from?
In A Norwegian Tragedy, Aage Borchgrevink attempts toprovide an answer. Taking us with him to the multiethnic andclass-divided city where Breivik grew up, he follows theperpetrator of the attacks into an unfamiliar online world ofviolent computer games and anti-Islamic hatred, and demonstratesthe connection between Breivik's childhood and the darkestpages of his 1500-page manifesto.
This is the definitive story of 22 July 2011: a Norwegian tragedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borchgrevink, Aage

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
1 The Explosion 1
2 Bacardi Razz 7
3 A West End Family: Anders Behring Breivik's Childhood25
4 Morning on Utøya 45
5 Morg the Graffiti Bomber: Anders Behring Breivik's Youth59
6 The 'Mother of the Nation' Returns to Utøya94
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 onUtøya 226
14 Hatred 247
Notes 273
Acknowledgements 287
Index 288

Über Autor(innen)

Aage Borchgrevink is an eminent Norwegian journalist and literary critic. He has worked as an advisor to the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights since 1993 and in 2004 was awarded the Ossietzky Award by the Norwegian P.E.N. Club for outstanding promotion of free speech.