Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Remarque's book was partly based on Henri Barbusse's 1916 novel Under Fire. Barbusse was a French journalist who served as a stretcher-bearer on the front lines, and his book was very influential in its own right at the time. By the end of the war, it had sold almost 250,000 copies and read by servicemen of many nations. [13]
Lewis, Cecil. "Sagittarius Rising", 1936 Greenhill Books, 332 pages, ISBN 1853675598; Lawson, Eric and Jane Lawson. The First Air Campaign, August 1914–November 1918 (1996) Leaman, Paul. Fokker Dr.I Triplane: A World War One Legend (2003). Classic Publications (ISBN 1903223288). 224 pgs. McKee, Alexander. The Friendless Sky (1984).
It is still recited today, especially on Remembrance Day and Memorial Day. [336] [337] A typical village war memorial to soldiers killed in World War I. National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, is a memorial dedicated to all Americans who served in World War I. The Liberty Memorial was dedicated on 1 November 1921. [338]
The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication. [1] It is the first book in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War, being followed by The Eye in the Door in 1993, and then The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize ...
Two people separated in time are somehow able to talk to each other using an amateur radio. The people in question are two students in the same school, one in 1979, the other in 2000. 2000 The Kid: Jon Turteltaub: A 40-year-old image consultant (Bruce Willis) finds himself being visited by his 10-year-old self. 2000 For All Time: Steven Schachter
The Guns of August (published in the UK as August 1914) is a 1962 book centered on the first month of World War I written by Barbara W. Tuchman. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict. The book's focus then becomes a military history of the contestants, chiefly the great powers.
The Battle of Dorking (1871) established the genre of invasion literature. (Cover of the 1914 edition) Invasion literature (also the invasion novel or the future war genre [1]) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the First World War (1914–1918).
Orpen's work was criticised for superficiality in the pursuit of perfectionism: "in the tremendous fun of painting he altogether forgot the ghastliness of war". [10] The most popular painting in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1917 was Frank O. Salisbury's Boy 1st Class John Travers Cornwell V.C. depicting a youthful act of heroism.