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  2. A Woman in Berlin - Wikipedia

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    The memoir describes a journalist's personal experiences during the occupation of Berlin by the Soviets at the end of World War II. She describes being gang raped by Russian soldiers and deciding to seek protection by forming a relationship with a Soviet officer; other women made similar decisions. The author described it as "sleeping for food."

  3. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

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    Banned in the UK till after the Second World War. [266] Rights of Man: Thomas Paine: 1791 1792 Pre-1990 *Unknown* Political theory Banned in the UK and author charged with treason for supporting the French Revolution. [159] Despised and Rejected: Rose Laure Allatini (under the pseudonym A. T. Fitzroy) 1918 1918 1975 [267] Novel

  4. The Rape of Nanking (book) - Wikipedia

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    The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanjing Massacre—the mass murder and mass rape of Chinese civilians committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

  5. My Michael - Wikipedia

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    It's hardly surprising that the book caused controversy and was a best seller in Israel". [ 6 ] Joshua Leifer praised Oz's skill in depicting the city of Jerusalem between the 1948 and 1956 wars, but called the characterization of Hannah "unconvincing", in line with what he calls Oz's tendency to portray women in his fiction as "promiscuous ...

  6. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

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    This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...

  7. Japanese history textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    The textbook downplays or whitewashes the nature of Japan's military aggression in the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in World War II. The textbook was approved by the Ministry of Education in 2001, and caused a huge controversy in Japan, China and Korea.

  8. Why parents tried to ban this children's book about a ... - AOL

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    Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district. ...

  9. List of books with anti-war themes - Wikipedia

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    The Causes of World War Three – C. Wright Mills, 1958 [21] Choosing Peace: A Handbook on War, Peace, and Your Conscience – Robert A. Seeley, 1994; The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War – Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan and Donald Kennedy, 1984; Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians – Chris Hedges, 2008