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The Causes of World War Three – C. Wright Mills, 1958 [21] Choosing Peace: A Handbook on War, Peace, and Your Conscience – Robert A. Seeley, 1994; The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War – Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan and Donald Kennedy, 1984; Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians – Chris Hedges, 2008
The protagonist Harm Wulf, a peasant, lost his family in the first years of war; he becomes the defending Wulf (wehrender Wulf) by defending a hill fort and its surrounding carr with peasants hiding from the pillaging hordes. Harm Wulf gathers allies until 121 men are in the Alliance of the Wehrwolf. After peace is restored, Harm Wulf is a grim ...
Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven Pressfield; The Palaeologian Dynasty. The Rise and Fall of Byzantium by George Leonardos; Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (the Battle of Thermopylae) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (World War I and Greco-Turkish War) The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (Athens in the ...
Elliott drew inspiration for the novel from the experiences of her own father, who served as a bomber pilot in World War II and had to rely on the courage of everyday French people to reach freedom. This novel and the sequel, "A Troubled Peace," are works of historical fiction. The characters, dialog, and plot twists created by the author are ...
Piece of Cake is a 1983 novel by Derek Robinson which follows a fictional Royal Air Force fighter squadron through the first year of World War II, and the Battle of Britain. It was later made into the 1988 television serial Piece of Cake. Although a work of fiction, the novel purports to be as historically accurate as possible.
The result was his celebrated novel War and Peace, set between the years 1805 and 1820. Its final chapters carry the action up to the period of the Decembrists. It is known that he conducted research into the Decembrist movement with much the same thoroughness that he had approached the Napoleonic Wars. Tolstoy sought access to the Decembrists ...
A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1959.Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work.
The novel takes place during the Nigerian Civil War. The main character, Mene, has a naïve impression of soldiery. The main character, Mene, has a naïve impression of soldiery. It will make him an adult, it will attract the attention of Agnes, and he will have a great uniform to impress everyone back in the village (Dukana), will sing songs ...