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“D-Dagen, den allierte invasjonen i Normandie 1944” –

Books

My latest book is about the allied invasion of Normandie and Europe in 1944. Well written by Michael Tamelander and Niklas Zetterling. I found the book very good since they do not in a way do not support any side, like books have done since the end of the war. Instead they try to explain why the allied was able to win thanks to the fact that they outnumbered the Germans and the fact that most of all Hitler did some very, very tactical stupidites (Thank God for that!). The book points out the weak sides of the Allied forces, things that I have not been aware of. It also points out why the German leadership was way better than the Allied leadership, when it comes to leadership out in the field. If you are interested in WW2, I will recommend the book for sure.

http://www.haugenbok.no/resverk.cfm?stipr=aktoer-0_46772-1_3&cid=180789

I got tickets to Hellacopters

Music

Hellacopters are currently touring Europe on their farewell-tour after 15 years of playing rock’n roll. I’m doing my homework and listening to their concert from Hove earlier this year http://nrkp3.no/konserter/?klipp=382861 to be as prepared as possible before the concert. That, combined with a small amount of beer, and I expect that it will be one hell of a concert!! 🙂

We have bought a new car

Leisure

Yesterday I went out to try to find some used cars which we could consider buying. Talked to Espen on the phone on my way who said that he would not be surprised if I ended up buying a car the same day. So as he said I did. So yesterday I signed the contract saying goodbye to my old Peugeot 206 SW, who has been a superb car – but unfortunately to small now, and saying hello to a Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCI. Almost like this one dinside.no/php/art.php?id=29361, except that I bought a 2006 model.

Ok, I must admit according to this article http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2004/04/14/395763.html it is bad to buy a Ford

FORD: Eliten velger ikke Ford. Dette er bilmerket for vanlige folk med vanlige liv, og som jobber fra 08.00 til 16.00. Ford-eieren har ikke noe behov for å stikke seg ut. Er familieorientert og bryr seg om nære ting i hverdagen. Ford er mest Frp-bil.

Howl – Higher Class of Lush

Music

I heard the live version of the song “Silver Equals Gold” on the radio and loved it at once. We soon got to realize thanks to P3Tv http://www.nrk.no/p3tv and the recordings from Øya this year that Howl is a Norwegian band. The released their first album last year and got very good reviews. Got the cd as a present from Anders (and Elin) today, I’m very happy!

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