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Tuesday, November 10, 2020 from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
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This is an online Zoom Event

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Carolyn Reznick
Ruth Keeler Memorial Library
914-669-5161
keelerlibrary@wlsmail.org
 

History Book Club, The Vikings, Neil Oliver

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the West and as far as Baghdad in the East. As the Vikings did not write their own history, we have to discover it for ourselves; and that discovery, as Neil Oliver reveals, tells an extraordinary story of a people who, from the brink of destruction, reached a quarter of the way around the globe and built an empire that lasted nearly two hundred years.