A review by fil
The Vikings: A New History by Neil Oliver

3.0

Annoyingly not as advertised, it should have been titled 'Scandinavia And Its People'. Oliver begins at the very start of humanity's settlement of Denmark, Sweden and Norway and eventually gets to the Vikings. Despite this, and the author's personal digressions being very odd at times, a good, solid history of Scandinavians (and Vikings!). The author's style seems better suited to TV though, as if he'd look straight at the camera and chat about this or that, sometimes about a subject with a tenuous link to the matter at hand. All in all, good stuff.