There were not much people as animals. Sometimes small and frightened, huddling together in cattle cars, wounds gaping, tongues swelling even as they licked the moist frost from the walls...Grievously wounded - having survived the operating table and the perilous journey West on a freezing freight train- Sven Hassel and his comrades find themselves behind the lines in a Hamburg hospital. The Reich is a hotbed of lies, betrayal and propaganda. Disgusted by the Nazi cause, the comrades drink themselves into oblivion, visit brothels where women dance naked on saloon tables and reach for home comforts before they return to the dreaded Russian Front. Because Hitler's war must go on...Comrades of War is a gritty portrayal of war's harsh realities and the fear and fanaticism at the heart of The Third Reich. Sven Hassel's unflinching narrative is based on his own experiences in the German Army. He began writing his first novel, Legion of the Damned in a prisoner of war camp at the end of World War Two.

Product Description: Bjørn Hansen has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that pure chance has ruled his life. Novel 11, Book 18 is an uncompromising and concentrated existential novel which earned Dag Solstad his second Norwegian Critics’ Prize.

Product Description: Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun is at his best in this early novel, reprinted from the Sun & Moon edition. This popular book, described as an important transitional work in Hamsun’s career, received rave reviews upon its original English-language publication.

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive study in English of the novels of Knut Hamsun, Nobel Laureate in literature for 1920, from the radically innovative Hunger (1890) to The Ring Is Closed (1936). The texts are discussed in depth, with analysis of recurrent themes, narrative modes, and generic idiosyncrasies, and are evaluated in terms of originality and artistic integrity...read more

An unusually high number of pilot retirements are scheduled to occur in the next five years. This fact, coupled with the constant growth in commercial air travel, makes aspiring airline pilots' chances better than ever. In this book, Jeff Griffin provides a straightforward appraisal of the current and prospective job outlook. Griffin provides a complete overview of the physical, psychological, and flight experience requirements; civilian and military training options; and the job hunting process. Readers will also find a wealth of tips for surviving new-hire training, simulator checks, and the all-important first-year evaluations as an airline pilot.

Product Description: Published in Norway in 1912, The Last Joy (Den Siste Glaede) appears at an important transition point in Hamsun’s career, as he moved any from his intense observations of individual characters to focus on a broader canvas of small town and farm life social units of the Norwegian culture...read more

Product Description: In this moving and profound novel, Sigurd Hoel explores belief and traitorism through the major character's memories of the underground during World War II in Norway. At the dark center of this work are questions of why certain individuals turn against their own country, their own values, and their own "selves" so to speak...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A compelling and ambitious tale of suffering and redemption-set in Norway. Idun Hov could have led a normal life. She is no less intelligent than her successful twin sister, Kathrine-a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker-but a succession of traumatic childhood experiences condemn Idun to a life spent mostly in a mental hospital (at her sister's instigation)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: On Overgrown Paths was written after World War II, at a time when Hamsun was in police custody for his openly expressed Nazi sympathies during the German occupation of Norway, 1940-45. A Nobel laureate deeply beloved by his countrymen, Hamsun was now reviled as a traitor—as long as his sanity was not called into question...read more

Product Description: With its angst-ridden, sensualist hero, Anne Garborg's classic, Weary Men, (Trætte Mænd) invites comparison with the classic European decadent novels of the turn of the century—Huysmans's Against the Grain and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Set in a farming community in rural Norway, the novel follows the exploits of Anders, the fourth child and only son of a landowner/banker and a doting mother from age four to ten

The first English translation of Askildsen's best writing from a 40-year period. Askildsen (b. 1929) first came to prominence in Norwegian literature in the 1950s with his Kafkaesque accounts of alienated individuals in a hostile environment. His reputation has grown since and he is now recognized as a major author. A recent translation of Askildsen's writing into French invited comparison with Beckett.

Product Description: English translation of the Norwegian novel, Trollringen, with an afterword and notes by Sverre Lyngstad. Trollringen is at once a historical saga, murder mystery, and domestic tragedy. Sigurd Hoel's last novel is set in the early nineteenth century, following Norway's independence from Denmark and during the country's struggle to escape Danish domination...read more

Product Description: 1984 1st Greenwood. ISBN 0 313 24343 3. Hardcover. Octavo, 198pp., cloth. Near Fine, slight residue from price tag inside cover, faint indentations on rear cover.