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He began writing poetry during World War II, after a Red Cross worker handed him an anthology of poetry. In 1963, Field's book Stand Up, Friend, With Me was awarded the prestigious Lamont Poetry Prize and was published. In 1992, he received a Lambda Award for Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963–1992. [3]
Pages in category "Novels set during World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 519 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Canadian author Elizabeth Smart's novel in prose poetry By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is published in London (U.K.); the writer's mother Louise leads a successful campaign with government officials to have the book banned in Canada, buying up as many copies as she can find of those that make their way into the country and having ...
World War II book stubs (1 C, 106 P) ... Poem on the Downfall of My City; R. Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939–1945; Russia: War, Peace and Diplomacy; S.
During World War II the Gestapo used Terezin, better known by the German name Theresienstadt, as a ghetto. The majority of the Jews sent there were scholars, professionals, artists and musicians. Before all out war broke out, the Nazis made plans to deceive International Red Cross inspectors into believing that Jews were being treated humanely.
Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was a poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. [2] He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
The best-known versions of the confession in English are the edited versions in poetic form that had begun circulating by the 1950s. [1] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes the following text as one of the many poetic versions of the speech: [2] [3]
After World War II, the war that has attracted the greatest number of novelists is the Vietnam War. Graham Greene's The Quiet American was the first novel to explore the origins of the Vietnam war in the French colonial atmosphere of the 1950s. Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is a cycle of Vietnam vignettes that reads like a novel.