Roger Albrigtsen

Roger Albrigtsen

About

Roger Albrigtsen (født 18. januar 1971) er en norsk forfatter av krigshistorie. Han kommer fra Evenes kommune i Nordland.

Albrigtsen er barnebarn av kurér, grenselos og XU-agent Magne Lindgren fra Skjomen.

Albrigtsen er også frilanser og har skrevet en rekke krigshistoriske artikler for norske aviser og tidsskrifter.

Han var våren 2008 debutant med boken: Ukjent norsk krigshistorie - Sepals - Hemmelige baser på svensk jord 1944-1945.

Våren 2009 kom boken i ny utgave via Orion Forlag og Forlaget Kristiansen i serien Orion Dokumentar

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

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<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>

Story Behind The Book

Roger Albrigtsen har skaffet til veie store mengder unike, upubliserte fotografier fra basene. Hans morfar var agent og kurér under hele krigen, og tilknyttet en av basene han skriver om i boken.

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<p style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-family:'Century Gothic';" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;">&quot;Spennende og ukjent krigshistorie!</span></span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"></span><span style="color:#800000;font-size:12pt;"></span></span></p><p></p> <p style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-family:'Century Gothic';" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:#800000;font-size:13.5pt;"> </span></p><p></p> <p style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-family:'Century Gothic';" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-style:italic;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;">Et upretensiøst gullfunn i et hav av såkalte &quot;ukjente&quot; krigshistorier. Dette er spennende lesning! Albrigtsen har gjort en stor jobb i sin oppsporing av kilder og informanter. Når man vet at forfatterens utgangspunkt var en enkel konvolutt etter sin bestefar, forstår man at her har Albrigtsen virkelig saumfart kildene. Og når han så presterer en så fin balanse mellom å slippe til informantenes egne stemmer og selv å gi bakgrunnsbildene, blir dette en meget lesverdig bok! Sepals er fint skrevet, språket er lett og ledig. De unike historiske bildene er verdt boka alene! <br /></span></p>