He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( 1945 ), which together have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

Stuart Little is a 1945 children's novel by E. B.

The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel The Brick Foxhole by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks.

The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.

Foucault also came across Hermann Broch's 1945 novel The Death of Virgil at this time, a work that came to obsess both him and Barraqué.

* French — Ballieu, A. Jacques: Pierrot at the Seaside ( 1905 ); Beissier, Fernand: Mon Ami Pierrot ( 1923 ); Champsaur, Félicien: The Wedding of the Dream ( pantomimic interlude in novel Le Combat des sexes ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1918 ); Hennique, Léon: The Redemption of Pierrot ( 1903 ); Morhardt, Mathias: Mon ami Pierrot ( 1919 ); Strarbach, Gaston: Pierrot's Revenge ( 1913 ); Tervagne, Georges de, and Colette Cariou: Mon ami Pierrot ( 1945 ); Voisine, Auguste: Pierrot's Scullery-Brats ( 1903 ).

In the 1945 John Steinbeck novel Sweet Thursday, the titular day is preceded by " Lousy Wednesday ".

Her first novel, Bonheur d ' occasion ( 1945 ), gave a starkly realistic portrait of the lives of people in Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal.

His next novel, Arch of Triumph, first published in 1945 in English, and the next year in German as Arc de Triomphe, was another instant best-seller and reached worldwide sales of nearly five million.

* The Egyptian, a 1945 historical novel by Mika Waltari

Poldark author Winston Graham knew the town well and set his novel The Forgotten Story ( 1945 ) in Falmouth.

The setting of the novel contributed greatly to its popularity following its early release, but the book did not receive widespread attention until after Fitzgerald's death in 1940, when republishings in 1945 and 1953 quickly found a wide readership.

* Focus ( novel ), a 1945 novel by Arthur Miller

It was in 1945 that he published his first novel Education européenne.

When film director Michael Curtiz adapted Mildred Pierce for the big screen in 1945, he lived up to the cinemagoers ' and the producers ' expectations by adding a murder that is not in the novel.

His most popular novel was The Black Rose ( 1945 ), centred in the time and actions of Bayan of the Baarin also known as Bayan of the Hundred Eyes.

Taylor's first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote's, was published in 1945 and was followed by eleven more.

In 1945 he made Diary of a Chambermaid, an adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel, Le Journal d ' une femme de chambre, starring Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith.

Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne ( The Bitch ) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne ( 1931 ) by director Jean Renoir.

* The novel In Ballast to the White Sea by Malcolm Lowry, lost in a fire in 1945.

At its publication during the Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ), the psychological realism of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold ( 1963 ) rendered it a revolutionary espionage novel by showing that the intelligence services of both the Eastern and Western nations practiced the same expedient amorality in the name of national security.

Although not mentioned directly by name, the novel Cryptonomicon depicts an assault of a similar fortress U. S. Marine Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe dies assaulting in 1945.

* Trepanning is featured in the 1945 novel The Egyptian by Mika Waltari

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

M. Kegham -- the name is a pseudynom -- was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) -- two reasons the Communists put him away when they arrived in 1945.

The group of elements is more diverse than the lanthanides and therefore it was not until 1945 that Glenn T. Seaborg proposed the most significant change to Mendeleev's periodic table, by introducing the actinides.

The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November 1945.

The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

After 1945 this territory around Königsberg was turned into Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, where amber is now systematically mined.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

The chemical structure of penicillin was determined by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1945.

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

In 1945, the first formal women's barbershop organization, Sweet Adelines, was formed.

In 1945, a new base was constructed on the island of Terceira, and it is named Lajes Field.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.

* End of Estado Novo ( 1945 ): Then Dictator Getúlio Vargas is deposed by generals and later General Eurico Dutra was elected president.