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Bayly and Harper (2007) Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire (London:Penguin). McMillan, Richard (2005) The British Occupation of Indonesia 1945–1946: Britain, the Netherlands and the Indonesian revolution (London:Routledge). Parrott, J. G. A., Role of the 49 Indian Infantry Brigade in Surabaya, Oct.-Nov. 1945, Australian thesis
The King's Singers include a 12-minute song "A Rough Guide to the Royal Succession (It's just one damn King after another…)" by Paul Drayton, on their 2012 album Royal Rhymes and Rounds. This song bears no relation to the mnemonic verses except for its subject matter, a chronology of the monarchy starting with pre-Norman kings "With names ...
"Rule, Britannia!" is a British patriotic song, originating from the 1740 poem "Rule, Britannia" by James Thomson [1] and set to music by Thomas Arne in the same year. [2] It is most strongly associated with the Royal Navy , but is also used by the British Army .
The march has been used in German commercials for Underberg digestif bitter since the 1970s, [14] and has become a classic jingle there. [15] A parody titled "Comet" is a humorous song about the ill effects of consuming the cleaning product of the same name. [16] In Indonesia this march became the jingle tune for a medicine brand called Bodrex
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
The characteristics of the funeral march are found in various symphonic poems such as Tasso (1854), Die Ideale (1857), Hamlet (1858), Héroïde funèbre (1849-1850), Hungaria (1854), where the Hungarian composer deals with both death and mourning itself, and death as a prelude to rebirth. In the last two poems cited the reference to the funeral ...
Death March (Filipino: Martsang kamatayan) is a 2013 Philippine war drama directed by Adolfo Alix, Jr. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival . [ 1 ]
The Ides of March (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2011 film The Ides of March directed by George Clooney. The film score is composed by Alexandre Desplat , who would later collaborate with Clooney on his other directorial ventures, The Monuments Men (2014), Suburbicon (2017) and The Midnight Sky (2020).