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History and Heritage

Read about Danish and Scandinavian history, migration, and cultural heritage through biographies, reference books, and personal accounts. Explore the people and events behind traditions still shared in Elk Horn and beyond.

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Vagrant Viking: My life and adventures

Famous Danish explorer Peter Freuchen (1886“1957) lived an epic life of adventures ranging from exploring the frozen Arctic to fighting the German war machine of World War II. In Vagrant Viking he chronicles his exploits from Copenhagen to Siberia to Hollywood. Together with fellow polar explorer Knud Rasmussen, Freuchen established the Greenland trading station of Thule, and spent many years living amongst the indigenous people of the region. During World War II Freuchen served in occupied Denm

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Winter Fortress

A New York Times Bestseller now available in paperback! From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.. It’s 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway’s Vemo

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