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According to literary review aggregator site Book Marks, A Desolation Called Peace received mostly "Rave" reviews. [5]In his starred BookPage review, Noah Fram compares how Martine’s debut effort showcased her talents in creating a gripping narrative, blending humor and consummate world building, to the more cerebral thematic exploration in A Desolation Called Peace, which he writes features ...
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.
Rory Stewart in his review for The Guardian labels the book as "well-organised, unaggressive and elegant". [6] The book was among the nominees for the 44th NAACP Image Awards in the Literary Work – Biography/ Auto-Biography category. [12] The book was also listed by The Washington Post in its list of 50 notable works of 2012 in non-fiction. [10]
The American University speech, titled "A Strategy of Peace", was a commencement address delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy at the American University in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 10, 1963. [1]
Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of short stories and essays about war and peace written by Kurt Vonnegut. It is the first posthumous collection of his previously unpublished writings. The book includes an introduction by Mark Vonnegut , a letter from Kurt to his family about his experiences as an American prisoner of war in Nazi ...
The tract Defensor pacis (The Defender of Peace) laid the foundations of modern doctrines of popular sovereignty. It was written by Marsilius of Padua (Italian: Marsilio da Padova), an Italian medieval scholar. [1] It appeared in 1324 and provoked a storm of controversy that lasted through the century.
[2] During the First World War he served as a conscientious objector. [2] Stapledon became an ambulance driver with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France and Belgium from July 1915 to January 1919; he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery. [5] His wartime experiences influenced his pacifist beliefs and advocacy of a World Government. [6]
The novel is largely based on factual events and follows two main characters: Terry Winters (based on Roger Windsor), [2] chief executive of the National Union of Mineworkers; and Stephen Sweet (based on David Hart), an advisor to the Thatcher government.