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A war novel or military fiction is a novel about war. It is a novel in which the primary action takes place on a battlefield, or in a civilian setting (or home front), where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, suffering the effects of, or recovering from war.
The book centers on Paul Bäumer, a German soldier on the Western Front during World War I. Before the war, Paul lived with his parents and sister in a charming German village. He attended school, where the patriotic speeches of his teacher Kantorek led the whole class to volunteer for the Imperial German Army shortly after the start of the ...
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
Graphical sound or drawn sound (Fr. son dessiné, Ger. graphische Tonerzeugung,; It. suono disegnato) is a sound recording created from images drawn directly onto film or paper that were then played back using a sound system.
Ed., War on the Western Front: In the Trenches of World War I (Osprey, 2007) Imperial War Museum's 1914–1918 The Western Front Experience (Carlton Books, 2008) The War Studies Reader: From the Seventeenth century to the Present Day & Beyond (Continuum, 2010) The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army (Aurum Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1845136918).
The loudness war (or loudness race) is a trend of increasing audio levels in recorded music, which reduces audio fidelity and—according to many critics—listener enjoyment. Increasing loudness was first reported as early as the 1940s, with respect to mastering practices for 7-inch singles . [ 1 ]
Graphic notation (or graphic score) is the representation of music through the use of visual symbols outside the realm of traditional music notation. Graphic notation became popular in the 1950s, and can be used either in combination with or instead of traditional music notation. [ 1 ]
According to Woodward, Biden referred to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "son of a bitch" and a "bad fucking guy" regarding his handling of the Israel–Hamas war, and blamed the Russian invasion of Ukraine on former president Barack Obama's handling of Russia's annexation of Crimea.