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"September 1, 1939" (in The New Republic (U.S.) October 18) Vladimir Cavarnali – Răsadul verde al inimii stelele de sus îl plouă (The Heart's Green Seedling Is Rained upon by the Stars Above) Aimé Césaire – Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook on a Return to the Native Land) T. S. Eliot – Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 is a 2011 book by historian Max Hastings, covering the history of World War II and complementing Hastings' earlier works Overlord, Armageddon and Nemesis. In the United States, it was published under the title Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945. [1]
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Grapes of Wrath , by John Steinbeck , which held on top of the list for 24 weeks, and All This and Heaven Too by Rachel Field , which was on top of the list for 14 weeks.
The New World Order was published in January 1940 by Secker & Warburg in London and by Alfred A. Knopf in New York. [23] Beginning in November 1939, before the official publication of The New World Order, The Fortnightly Review magazine began serialising the book in four monthly instalments, ending February 1940. [24]
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933–1939 is the second of two volumes on the political and diplomatic history of Europe between the World Wars (1919 – 1939) and is part of The Oxford History of Modern Europe series.
First US edition (publ. Random House) Journey to a War is a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, published in 1939.. The book is in three parts: a series of poems by Auden describing his and Isherwood's journey to China in 1938 ; a "Travel-Diary" by Isherwood (including material first drafted by Auden) about their travels in China itself, and their ...
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