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Sep 2, 2020 · Share 75 Years Later: 10 Unforgettable Novels About World War II We’re Reading to Honor the Past As we cross the seventy-fifth anniversary of World War II’s completion, we take a moment to recognize the extraordinary pain and horror that arose from that time, while also saluting the inspiring and daring heroes who led this world into ...
Apr 13, 2024 · The Girl from Venice. by Martin Cruz Smith. Read expert recommendations. “It’s a thriller that’s set in the lagoon and in Venice and northern Italy, towards the end of World War Two, in 1945. It begins with the murder of a German officer and it’s about a Jewish woman who is rescued by a fisherman who hides her.
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Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II. by Stephanie D Hinnershitz. This book by my friend and colleague Stephanie Hinnershitz is simply one of the best and most important books of 2021. Her research yields a number of vital findings, but two stand out here.
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The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J. Evans. 4.3 on Goodreads. . This comprehensive trilogy includes three books: “The Coming of the Third Reich,” “The Third Reich in Power,” and “The Third Reich at War.”. Spanning the entire history of the Nazi regime, Evans provides a detailed and authoritative account of Hitler’s rise to power ...
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- Literature after 1945
The outbreak of war in 1939, as in 1914, brought to an end an era of great intellectual and creative exuberance. Individuals were dispersed; the rationing of paper affected the production of magazines and books; and the poem and the short story, convenient forms for men under arms, became the favoured means of literary expression. It was hardly a time for new beginnings, although the poets of the New Apocalypse movement produced three anthologies (1940–45) inspired by Neoromantic anarchism. No important new novelists or playwrights appeared. In fact, the best fiction about wartime—Evelyn Waugh’s Put Out More Flags (1942), Henry Green’s Caught (1943), James Hanley’s No Directions (1943), Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude (1947), and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (1949)—was produced by established writers. Only three new poets (all of whom died on active service) showed promise: Alun Lewis, Sidney Keyes, and Keith Douglas, the latter the most gifted and distinctive, whose eerily detached accounts of the battlefield revealed a poet of potential greatness. Lewis’s haunting short stories about the lives of officers and enlisted men are also works of very great accomplishment.
It was a poet of an earlier generation, T.S. Eliot, who produced in his Four Quartets (1935–42; published as a whole, 1943) the masterpiece of the war. Reflecting upon language, time, and history, he searched, in the three quartets written during the war, for moral and religious significance in the midst of destruction and strove to counter the spirit of nationalism inevitably present in a nation at war. The creativity that had seemed to end with the tortured religious poetry and verse drama of the 1920s and ’30s had a rich and extraordinary late flowering as Eliot concerned himself, on the scale of The Waste Land but in a very different manner and mood, with the well-being of the society in which he lived.
Increased attachment to religion most immediately characterized literature after World War II. This was particularly perceptible in authors who had already established themselves before the war. W.H. Auden turned from Marxist politics to Christian commitment, expressed in poems that attractively combine classical form with vernacular relaxedness. C...
Jul 1, 2002 · How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War. Paperback – July 1, 2002. Compiled by the historical adviser to the TV series "The 1940s House," this is an engagingly written social chronicle of wartime civilian life in England from September 1939 to August 1945 from the grandeurs of the Blitz to the miseries of ...
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Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (1998) Many terrible battles were fought during the Second World War, but none come close to the savage four-month German Soviet battle of Stalingrad. It was all shades of awful. For context, consider that the Allied death toll in Normandy reached an appalling 10,000.
