Biblioteken i Norrbotten

Given the increasing interest in the Victorian era an authoritative biography of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC is long overdue. By any standards his career was remarkable and be ...

This is the autobiography of an outstanding fighter pilot during his twenty year career with the Royal Air Force. Tony Doyle first flew when in the CCF where he complted a glider c ...

This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards and told in their ...

This is a true story of a force of ‘licensed to kill’ secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian Fleming worked, and upon whom his ...

Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. F ...

Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner’s story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping ...

Susan Casserfelts kriminalromaner i Höga kusten-serien har lovprisats och blivit riktiga ljudbokssuccéer. Men medan hennes författarkarriär tog fart brottades hon med svårigheter p ...

The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic, almost Napoleonic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare in wh ...

Sailor in the Desert is the personal account of a Royal Navy sailor's experiences during the Mesopotamian campaign of 1915. As an able seaman on an armed sloop supporting the Briti ...

This is the story of a Kavango tracker who served for six years with Koevoet (‘Crowbar’), the elite South African Police anti-terrorist unit, during the South West African–Angolan ...

Life is pretty dull for Ken Rees these days. At 17 he craved danger and excitement; fast planes and cars; rugby, speed and women. Then war came and by the age of 21 he had already ...

The fascinating autobiography from Asia’s first ever dinghy sailing gold medallist. Learning to sail and becoming a full-time athlete at just 10 years old, Lijia Xu was taken away ...

This gripping book tells the remarkable story of Germany's special forces – military, naval and aerial – during the Second World War. Although capable of stunning achievements agai ...

Overwhelmed by the strength of the Allied air and ground forces, following the D-Day landings and subsequent bitter fighting in Normandy, the Germans were compelled to abandon thei ...

The assault was failing. Wellington's men had stormed the walls of the great frontier fortress of Badajoz only to be beaten back with terrible losses. Then on the keep of the old c ...

The memoirs of Admiral Karl Dönitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account of the Battle of the Atlantic as seen from the headquarters of the U-boat fleet. ...

Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War. This vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs an ...

A brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II . . .A rarely frank account of the U.S. infantry experience in northern Europe, A Foot Soldier for Patton takes th ...

Runner-Up in the 2017 Florida Book Festival History CategoryThis is the first biography devoted to the life of a remarkable young man who, in the words of Civil War historian Ezra ...

När jag föddes hade jag inga goda odds att överleva! Livet fick en tuff start och min familjs tillvaro vändes upp och ner. De rekommenderades att lämna mig till ett avlastningsboen ...

"Anna Ardin har skrivit en uppriktig bok om livet i skuggan av en hjälte. En rapport som vi kan ställa sida vid sida med Klubben, Catch and kill och She said i kategorin upprättels ...

Reijo Ruotsalainen (s.1960) on yksi legendaarisimmista suomalaisista jääkiekkoilijoista. Hän aloitti uransa Oulun Kärpissä ja pelasi myös SM-liigassa Kärppien riveissä. Ruotsalaist ...

"Aurinko paistaa ikkunani kaltereiden lomasta ja ulkona kesäpäivä näyttää olevan kauneimmillaan. Olen ollut vangittuna pienessä sellissäni yli puoli vuorokautta, enkä pääse ulos en ...

Efter mer än 40 år som artist fyller Tommy Nilsson 60 år den 11 mars 2020. Tommy är en av Sveriges mest folkkära och flitigast turnerande sångare och musiker med mänger av klassike ...

Tosikertomus nuoren naisen tiestä äärioikeistoon ja takaisin hyväksyvään maailmaan.Nuori Anna-Lena kiertää maailmaa ja tekee muun muassa tarjoilijan töitä. Juhliminen ja kaverit tä ...