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Neal Ascherson in The New York Review of Books described Black Garden as "admirable and rigorous" [4] and Amer Latif in Parameters called it "a lucid, evenhanded analysis of the intricacies of this conflict". [5] Time magazine reviewer Paul Quinn-Judge and Robert Chenciner in International Affairs also gave the book positive reviews. [6] [7]
Three Soldiers – John Dos Passos novel, 1921, World War I; The Tin Drum – Günter Grass novel; The Train Was on Time (Der Zug war pünktlich) – Heinrich Böll novel, 1949; Two Women – Alberto Moravia novel, 1958; Under Fire – Henri Barbusse novel, 1916 [12] The Unknown Soldier – Väinö Linna novel, 1954; Voyage to Faremido ...
Peace Shall Destroy Many is the first novel by Canadian author Rudy Wiebe.The novel surrounds the lives of pacifist Mennonites in Saskatchewan during World War II. [1] The book generated considerable controversy in the Canadian Mennonite community when it was first published, forcing Wiebe to resign his position as editor of the Mennonite Brethren Herald. [2]
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) is a book written and published by the British economist John Maynard Keynes. [1] After the First World War, Keynes attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as a delegate of the British Treasury. At the conference as a representative of the British Treasury and deputy to the Chancellor of the ...
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 War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. [3] The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother who escapes to Tillingham in Essex as London and Southern England are invaded by Martians.
The Great Illusion is a book by Norman Angell, first published in the United Kingdom in 1909 under the title Europe's Optical Illusion [1] and republished in 1910 and subsequently in various enlarged and revised editions under the title The Great Illusion. [2] It is an influential book in the field of international relations. [3]
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (also subtitled Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922) is a 1989 history book written by Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction finalist David Fromkin, which describes the events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and the drastic changes that took place in ...