In the later books, the limp is not mentioned, which suggests it may have been a temporary wartime injury.

The later books move from confidence games, murder mysteries, and wartime espionage and place Templar as a global adventurer.

Two books listing the names and personal data of all Baltic Germans who died as a result of the resettlements and wartime conditions between 1939 and 1947 have been published by the Baltic German genealogical society.

The story of the wartime prisoners at Oflag IV-C was documented by Patrick Robert (" Pat ") Reid in his books The Colditz Story and The Latter Days At Colditz, and the former was used as the basis for a 1955 film directed by Guy Hamilton.

The book establishes many of Wimsey's character traits-for example, his interest in rare books, the nervous problems associated with his wartime shell-shock, and his ambiguous feelings about catching criminals for a hobby-and also introduces many characters who recur in later novels, such as Parker, Bunter, Sugg, and the Dowager Duchess.

Nel ( 2007 ) shows that the wartime experiences of authors Theodor Geisel ( Dr. Seuss ), Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf shaped their successful postwar children's books, especially the use of simple language, and some of the themes.

Publishing was in disarray, with Charles H. Kerr & Co. disorganized by wartime repression and the nature of the economics of publishing such that the production of low cost books a veritable impossibility.

He wrote several books about his wartime experiences, none of which appear to be translated into English.

The style of the front covers of Les Éditions de Minuit books remains almost as sparse as the wartime edition of Le Silence de la mer.

His most influential books featured mental adaptations that people made in extreme wartime environments: Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima ( 1967 ), Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans — Neither Victims nor Executioners ( 1973 ), and The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide ( 1986 ).

In addition to teaching and authoring several books, he has also helped reopen the wartime internment cases of Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui, and Gordon Hirabayashi.

He has written books on such diverse subjects as Meccano, wartime propaganda posters and French 18th-century caricature art ; he even edited a wine column for a short while.

Both books touch on the same issues that caused her wartime emigration from the home country.

His wartime experiences became the basis of his work Vessel of Sadness, which A. L. Rowse called one of the " most sensitive and moving books of the war, both authentic and poetic " in a review in the Times Literary Supplement.

The ending of the book makes a direct reference to America's involvement in World War II, which was barely mentioned in Chandler's other wartime books.

He has published his memoirs, where he recounts his wartime experiences and activities, in two books, Adventure in Diplomacy: Our French Dilemma and Adventure in Diplomacy ( World War II ).

Other books published by Newman during his Sunday Times years include the popular collections Opera Nights ( 1944, an unexpected wartime bestseller ), Wagner Nights ( 1949 ) and More Opera Nights ( 1954 ), published in the U. S. under the title Seventeen Famous Operas ( 1955 ).

In Taiwan, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek requested a statue of Chennault in the New Park of Taipei to commemorate this wartime friend after his death ( the statue has since been relocated to Hualian AFB ).

In January 1941, he was sent on a mission to China for discussions with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Chou En-lai, the Communist representative in the Chinese wartime capital of Chungking.

The demand for iron products, such as armor for gunboats, cannon, and shells, as well as a hundred other industrial products, made Pittsburgh a center of wartime production.

Dog tags are usually fabricated from a corrosion-resistant metal or alloy such as aluminium, monel or stainless-steel, although, during wartime, they have been made from whatever metals were available.

Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and then only under exceptional circumstances, with the express approval of the President in each case.

Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and only then under exceptional circumstances with the express approval of the President in each case.

The war films were often based on true stories and made in a similar low-key style to their wartime predecessors.

" Niven says that when he asked Bogart about his scar he said it was caused by a childhood accident ; Niven claims the stories that Bogart got the scar during wartime were made up by the studios to inject glamor.

Wimsey was for a time unable to give servants any orders whatsoever, since his wartime experience made him associate the giving of an order with causing the death of the person to whom the order was given.

Although he had never held a traditional military command, Beria made a significant contribution to the victory of the Soviet Union in World War II through his organization of wartime production and his use of partisans.

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European cinema survived although obviously curtailed during wartime and yet many films of high quality were made in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the Soviet Union and elsewhere in Europe.

Erhard's financial and economic policies soon proved widely popular as the German economy made a " miracle " recovery to rapid growth and widespread prosperity in the 1950s, overcoming wartime destruction and successfully integrating millions of refugees from the east.

Mao had always envisioned himself as a wartime guerrilla leader, which made him wary of the bureaucratic details of peacetime governance.

However, his conversion to the Republican Party and his cooperation with his old friend, President Ulysses S. Grant, as well as critical comments he wrote in his memoirs about General Lee's wartime performance, made him anathema to many of his former Confederate colleagues.

In 1942, after the United States entered the war against Japan and on the side of China, the Chinese government under the KMT renounced all treaties signed with Japan before that date and made Taiwan's return to China ( as with Manchuria ) one of the wartime objectives.

( Because the film was made during World War II, the film also anachronistically added some morale-boosting lyrics at the end of the song as part of Warner Bros .' wartime propaganda ).

Category: World War II films made in wartime

Category: World War II films made in wartime

Category: World War II films made in wartime

Category: World War II films made in wartime

According to the later feature film, made in 1976, both " Lads " were conceived during the same wartime air raid and were thus born in the same year, 1944.

In February 1855 the British government recognized Peto for his wartime services ; he was made a Baronet, of Somerleyton Hall in the County of Suffolk.

( During World War II, Oscar statues were made of plaster instead of gold, owing to wartime metal shortages.

Of thirteen fields available for use throughout the islands, only Clark Field was considered a first rate facility, and the small number of total fields made dispersal during wartime impossible.

In February 1941, he was promoted to ( wartime ) temporary rank of brigadier general ( bypassing the rank of colonel ) ( this rank was made permanent in September, 1943 ).

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