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In the novel series The Corps, General Almond is mentioned in the last two books: Under Fire and Retreat Hell! Almond is portrayed by the author (who served under Almond in the Korean War) in a positive light. In James McBride's 2002 novel Miracle at St. Anna, the commanding general of the 92nd Infantry Division, General Allman, is based on Almond.
Armed Services Editions (ASEs) were small paperback books of fiction and nonfiction that were distributed in the American military during World War II.From 1943 to 1947, some 122 million copies of more than 1,300 ASE titles were published and printed by the Council on Books in Wartime (CBW) and distributed to service members, with whom they were enormously popular.
Badam may refer to: Almond, in Hindi, Persian and Urdu languages; Badam River, a river of southern Kazakhstan; Badam, Kerman, a village in Saghder Rural District ...
Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir is a memoir written by Hussein Barghouthi (1954 – 2002) and translated into English by Ibrahim Muhawi. [1] It was posthumously published in Arabic in 2004, and the English version was published in 2022. [2] It was a 2023 winner of the Palestine Book Awards [3] and has been widely reviewed. [4] [5 ...
Pages in category "Books about World War II" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Dal badam chakki or Dal suphal chakki, is a Rajasthani dessert made using Dal (lentil) and badam (almond). It is a specialty of Marwari cuisine and is quite popular in the city of Jodhpur. [1] It mainly consists of almond, moong dal flour or mogar , mawa (condensed milk), ghee (clarified butter) and sugar.
Sad Sack is an American comic strip and comic book character created by Sgt. George Baker during World War II.Set in the United States Army, Sad Sack depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of military life.
Birdsong is a 1993 war novel and family saga by the English author Sebastian Faulks. [1] It is Faulks's fourth novel. The plot follows two main characters living at different times: the first is Stephen Wraysford, a British soldier on the front line in Amiens during the First World War, and the second is his granddaughter, Elizabeth Benson, whose 1970s plotline follows her attempts to recover ...