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December 28, 1948 (Tuesday) The Battles of the Sinai began when Israeli forces entered the Sinai Peninsula. 1948 Airborne Transport DC-3 (DST) disappearance: A Douglas DST airliner disappeared near the end of a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida with 32 aboard. The plane was never found.
Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The American publisher Bennett Cerf noted that there had been "only three novels published [in 1948] that were worth reading ... Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead ." [1] Only Cry did not top the list that year.
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May 22, 2019 · We started at 1918, bringing you the bestselling books of the last one hundred years. We’re moving along now, though it may be a while before we’ve covered the whole hundred years! We’re covering each year at a time and we’re now approaching the end of the 1940s as we feature 1948. 1948 was a leap year, which saw the first prefab houses ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation ...
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75.1k ratings. 127k shelvings. Want to read. Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.
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