One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad | Key Takeaways & Analysis

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jan 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781944195663

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Overview

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway is a journalistic account of the 2011 Norway terror attacks. The one-day terror attack claimed 77 lives and injured at least 319 people. The attack was the work of a 32-year-old lone-wolf terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, who drew his inspiration from right-wing ideology.

Breivik had a troubled childhood and adolescence. As a young adult he attempted to reinvent himself as a businessman and a rising star of the right-wing Progress Party. These endeavors failed and in 2006 he moved back in with his mother and spent five years playing video games and planning his terror attacks. He increasingly lost touch with the real world and began drafting a 1,515-page manifesto attacking Europe’s shift to a multicultural identity. Breivik blames this shift on so-called left-wing Cultural Marxists who had paved the way for increased immigration to Europe. In particular he deplores Islam and Muslim culture, which he finds incompatible with European identity. He also deplores Cultural Marxists for legalizing abortion, which he believes to be damaging to Norwegian culture.

On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, Breivik set off a bomb in front of the Office of the Prime Minister in downtown Oslo. Breivik then drove 25 miles to a lake northwest of Oslo, where he used a police uniform to bluff his way onto the small