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"I am only sad that I have to leave with a full trunk." [3] [note 37] — Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (26 September 1945). He died with multiple works left unfinished. "I'm convicted unfairly and I die innocent." [236] — Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician (24 October 1945), prior to execution by firing squad for murder and high ...
The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974 ...
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003 and lasted for three series. Each 60-minute episode explores either one or two significant events from history through a combination of dramatisation, archive footage, and eyewitness accounts.
So many atrocities throughout history; Mao’s Great Chinese Famine probably took the most lives in recorded history: between 20 and 55 million [people died], with the most common estimate being ...
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Washington's Crossing is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by David Hackett Fischer and part of the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series. It is primarily about George Washington's leadership during the 1776 campaign of the American Revolutionary War, culminating with George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and the subsequent campaign, with the Battle of Trenton, the ...
The novel is narrated from the present and past perspective of the characters and how they differed from each other's point of view. A novel that provokes the mind [2] and examines the relationship between life events, it is considered one of Kawabata's best works, though it has on occasion been criticised for its depictions of female ...
Super Sad True Love Story is the third novel by American writer Gary Shteyngart, and was published in 2010. [1] The novel takes place in a near-future dystopian New York where life is dominated by media and retail.