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MR BOOK REVIEWS
MASSACRE IN NORWAY:
The 2011 Terror Attacks on Oslo & the Utøya
Youth Camp
Stian Bromark (Translated by Hon Khiam Leong),
Potomac Books, Dulles, Virginia, 2014, 217 pages,
$24.95

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assacre in Norway describes the 22 July
2011 car-bomb attack in the government quarter of downtown Oslo and the
subsequent shooting of dozens of Labour Party youths
at an island camp by a 32-year-old Norwegian extreme
nationalist named Anders Behring Breivik. The book is
written in a journalistic style that primarily uses firsthand interviews with survivors and witnesses.
The majority of the work focuses on these interviews, elaborating on the human dimension a