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  2. Alistair Horne - Wikipedia

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    Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (9 November 1925 – 25 May 2017) [1] was a British historian and academic best known for his works about armed conflicts involving 19th- and 20th-century France, including his classic about the Algerian War, A Savage War of Peace.

  3. Sakyo Komatsu - Wikipedia

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    Komatsu's writing career began in the 1960s. Reading Kōbō Abe and Italian classics made Komatsu feel modern literature and science fiction are the same.. In 1961, he submitted for the 1st Scientific-fiction Contest of Hayakawa's SF Magazine: "Peace on Earth" was a short story in which World War II does not end in 1945 and a young man prepares to defend Japan against the Allied invasion.

  4. Sétif and Guelma massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Sétif and Guelma massacre [a] (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres [b] or the massacres of 8 May 1945 [c]) was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in 1945 around the market town of Sétif, west of Constantine, in French Algeria.

  5. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962 - Wikipedia

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    A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962 is a book by Alistair Horne and first published by Viking Press in 1977. The book covers the background, events and aftermath of the Algerian War (1954–1962).

  6. Venezuelan coups d'état - Wikipedia

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    The coup d'état of December 19, 1908, was a movement led by General Juan Vicente Gómez in Venezuela, by means of which, in the absence of President Cipriano Castro, he took power and would govern dictatorially, either directly by being elected by the president congress or indirectly through civilian puppet governments that obeyed him.

  7. Factbox-Who are Japan's Nobel Peace Prize winners Nihon ... - AOL

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    Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are also known as Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. In 1945 the ...

  8. Philip Wylie - Wikipedia

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    In 1945, he wrote a political column for the New York Post. Wylie wrote 69 "Crunch and Des" stories, most of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post , [ 8 ] about the adventures of Captain Crunch Adams, master of the charter boat Poseidon , which was the basis of a brief television series. [ 9 ]

  9. 1945 in film - Wikipedia

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    The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II , the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace. [ 1 ] In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier.