- Lars Gyllenhaal
Lars Herman Folke Gyllenhaal (born
July 9 1968 ) is a Swedish author, mainly writing onmilitary history and especially on Swedes in 20th century wars. He is the only child of former press counselor to theSwedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Herman Gyllenhaal and children's nurse Monica Gyllenhaal, née Wennerholm. He is married to Ann-Sofie Gyllenhaal, née Svensson. They have one son and one daughter.Gyllenhaal studied French at the
University of Savoy inFrance , and Russian at a language institute inMoscow ,USSR .Gyllenhaal began writing as a
freelance journalist for military history journals and newspapers. From 1992 to 1994 he was employed by local government authorities in the Russian county ofMurmansk on theKola Peninsula .He returned to Sweden in 1994 and was recruited by
Centek [http://www.centek.se] , an industry and management development foundation. He was employed as a project manager at Centek until he left on his own accord in 2000 to become a full-time author specializing in military history and the history of theBarents Region .In 2005 his book "Swedes at War 1914-1945" (co-written with
Lennart Westberg ) was nominated "Swedish History Book of the Year".Gyllenhaal has done research work for several documentary films on WWII such as "Krieg in der Arktis" (War in the Arctic) by
Jens Becker andRalf Daubitz and the prize-winning "Blood Road" and "Under a Rusty Star", both byGunilla Bresky .Since 2005 he is an elected member of the
Swedish Military History Commission . He has been engaged in the development of the Swedish Defense Museum inBoden , which opened in 2006.Works
*Kola - en guide published 1993 by AmuGruppen Norr, ISBN 91-630-2240-0
*Slaget om Nordkalotten (The Battle of the North Calotte), withJames F. Gebhardt . ISBN 91-88930-68-8, published 1999 by Historiska Media (first paperback edition 2001) ISBN 91-89442-26-1
*Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 (Swedes at War 1914-1945), withLennart Westberg . ISBN 91-85057-08-8, published 2004 by Historiska Media
*Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 revised and expanded. Paperback edition published by Historiska Media 2006, ISBN 91-85377-98-5, ISBN 91-85377-98-5.
*Victims, Victors (as the book's editor) byRoman Kravchenko-Berezhnoy , published 2007 by The Aberjona Press, ISBN 0-9717650-6-5
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