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Zigeuner (short story) Categories: World War II fiction. Historical short stories. War short stories. Short stories set in the 1930s. Short stories set in the 1940s.
All Quiet on the Western Front ( German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'In the West, nothing new') is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon ...
The War Prayer. " The War Prayer ", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military ...
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. [4] It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. [5] The novel follows in the viewpoint of Guy Montag, a fireman who soon becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge ...
Background. By the 1930s, propaganda was being used by most of the nations that join World War II. [ 1] Propaganda engaged in various rhetoric and methodology to vilify the enemy and to justify and encourage domestic effort in the war. A common theme was the notion that the war was for the defence of the homeland against foreign invasion.
Boundaries in 1920. In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period(or interbellum) lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I(WWI) to the beginning of World War II(WWII). It was relatively short, yet featured many social, political, military, and economic changes ...
The short story and title of the book “When a man falls from the Sky” has the characters' world flipped upside down as they discover an equation that they thought was perfect has flaws. While they try to reconcile with this fact, they begin to understand other people’s pain as well as to learn from it.