{"product_id":"9780745680026","title":"A Norwegian Tragedy: Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya","description":"On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe. In a carefully orchestrated sequence of actions he bombed government buildings in Oslo, resulting in eight deaths, then carried out a mass shooting at a camp of the Workers’ Youth League of the Labour Party on the island of Utøya, where he murdered sixty-nine people, mostly teenagers. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How could Anders Behring Breivik - a middle-class boy from the West End of Oslo - end up as one of the most violent terrorists in post-war Europe? Where did his hatred come from?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eA Norwegian Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, Aage Borchgrevink attempts to provide an answer. Taking us with him to the multiethnic and class-divided city where Breivik grew up, he follows the perpetrator of the attacks into an unfamiliar online world of violent computer games and anti-Islamic hatred, and demonstrates the connection between Breivik’s childhood and the darkest pages of his 1500-page manifesto.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the definitive story of 22 July 2011: a Norwegian tragedy.","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127056220400,"sku":"9780745680026","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780745680026_p0.jpg?v=1763636279","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780745680026","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}