Much of what this book contains you are not likely to find in any travel guide. Did you know, for instance, that Sweden held Olympic Games as early as 1834, sixty-two years before the first Olympics of the modern era? That peaceful Sweden has been a colonial power ruling over territories far from Europe? That the man who gave his name to the hundred-degree thermometer was a Swedish astronomer? Do you know how Sweden acted and reacted in the two world wars? Who the “Super Swedes” were? Or the … [Read more...] about What You Should Know About Sweden by Stanley Bloom