{"id":251,"date":"2021-12-05T02:57:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=251"},"modified":"2021-12-05T03:27:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T03:27:57","slug":"book-review-history-of-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2021\/12\/05\/book-review-history-of-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: History of Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stuck at home during the pandemic with no time frame for when travel will be okay, I have taken up studying. Everything from languages to history to international business and more. That means reading many books! I will be posting short reviews as I go along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first book I grabbed for reading on Kindle is <strong><em>History of Norway<\/em><\/strong> by John A. Yilek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=commonsensevi-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1681110245&amp;asins=1681110245&amp;linkId=682d61d5db981215be7f090e12ccf16b&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(This is an affiliate marketing link. If a purchase is made, I may receive a sales commission at no cost to you.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yilek covers, in a relatively short and fast paced read, the history of Norway from pre-Viking days up to the present. It is a fascinating look at a people who have endured incredible hardships, been ruled by other nations for hundreds of years (notably Denmark and Sweden), and badly treated by the Nazis in World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading European history, one is taken back by the never-ending violence and land grabs by various entities. The concept of a peaceful existence is rare and often fleeting &#8211; only to be followed by another bloody invasion. And another. Life was hard and then you died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yilek&#8217;s book is 270 pages but he writes with a style that keeps you glued to the pages &#8211; you really do not want to put it aside for long because &#8220;What happens next?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I greatly enjoyed this book and recommend it for anyone else interested in Scandinavian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of History of Norway, by John Yileks. A fast-paced book I did not want to put down &#8211; a whirl-wind tour of a complex history spanning thousands of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}