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  2. Prussian Nights - Wikipedia

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    Prussian Nights (Russian: Прусские ночи) is a long poem by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who served as a captain in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Prussian Nights describes the Red Army's march across East Prussia, and focuses on the traumatic acts of rape and murder that Solzhenitsyn witnessed as a participant in that ...

  3. Cranes (1969 song) - Wikipedia

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    Cranes in the sky. The poem was originally written in Gamzatov's native Avar language, with many versions surrounding the initial wording.Its famous 1968 Russian translation was soon made by the prominent Russian poet and translator Naum Grebnev, and was turned into a song in 1969, becoming one of the best known Russian-language World War II ballads all over the world.

  4. Wait for Me (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, much of the appeal of Wait for Me was the intimate and tender feelings expressed by the soldier narrator who wants to survive the war as he only wishes to return to the woman he loves once the war is over. [2] At a time when bombastic war poems were common, Wait For Me stood out in the sense though the soldier narrator embraces his ...

  5. High Flight - Wikipedia

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    High Flight is a 1941 sonnet written by war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. and inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. Magee began writing the poem on 18 August, while stationed at No. 53 OTU outside London, and mailed a completed manuscript to his family on 3 September, three months before ...

  6. Noor Inayat Khan - Wikipedia

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    This may have been the first poem dedicated to Noor Inayat Khan and refers to the isolation and fear shared by those in resistance to oppressive regimes. [80] On 3 March 2013, Irfanulla Shariff, an American poet, posted a poem on the Internet, "A Tribute To The Illuminated Woman of World War II", dedicated to Khan, which illustrates her life story.

  7. Edward Field (poet) - Wikipedia

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    He began writing poetry during World War II, after a Red Cross worker handed him an anthology of poetry. In 1963, Field's book Stand Up, Friend, With Me was awarded the prestigious Lamont Poetry Prize and was published. In 1992, he received a Lambda Award for Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963–1992. [3]

  8. Category:World War II poems - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "World War II poems" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. AD (poem) B.

  9. Boots (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read ...