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Why Iceland?: How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty
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Why Iceland?: How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest CasualtyWhy Iceland?: How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty

As late as the mid 1980s, Iceland’s economy revolved around little else than a semi-robust cod-fishing industry. By the end of the century, however, it had transformed itself into a major player in world finance, building an international banking empire worth twelve times its GDP. The tiny island nation of 300,000 was one of the global economy’s great success stories.  
 
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Tags: Meltdown, Biggest, Iceland, Became, Casualty
Casualty of war
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Casualty of warCasualty of war

Luisa Lang Owen's recounting of her childhood and the losses she and others experienced before, during and after the war, including three years in a concentration camp is, at once, both hauntingly beautiful and horrific. Her captors, in seeking to exterminate individuals and their culture ironically distilled, in this young woman, the essence of being...
 
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Tags: Casualty, Foreword, Barber, affecting, valuable, exterminate, individuals, seeking, captors