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A monumental life, spiritual and intellectual more than purely biographical, of the great swedish diplomat and author. Dag hammarskjold received the nobel peace prize posthumously in 1961. Second secretarygeneral of the united nations who is one of the select few to be honored with a nobel prize posthumously. Enter dag hammarskjold from 19012000 church history timeline. Markings by dag hammarskjold and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Handbook of marks on pottery and porcelain william burton. A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by. Markings by dag hammarskjold vintage 1964 alfred a. Hammarskjold himself described the manuscript as a sort. Hammarskjolds only book, vagmarken markings, or more literally waymarks, was published in 1963.
Together with almost a hundred photographs, many published for the first time, renowned swedish biographer henrik berggren writes with vigour and empathy about his life. The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding. His home there, which he considered his childhood home, was uppsala castle. Download markings dag hammarskjold ebook perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century. It is a remarkable record of the spiritual life of a man whose public image was universally known and admired a record that reveals the extent of his commitment to the way of the cross. Dag hammarskjold was born in jonkoping, sweden, in 1905, and died near ndola, northern rhodesia, on september 18, 1961, in an air crash while flying there to negotiate a ceasefire between united nations and katanga forces.
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