His memoir of the first days of World War II, Strange Defeat, written in 1940 but not published until 1946, blamed the French military establishment, along with her social and political culture, for the sudden total military defeat and helped after the war to neutralize the traumatic memory of France's failure and to build a new French identity.

In Strange Defeat he clearly states his view that individuals can change events and he castigates the French government's refusal to trust its own officers in the field of battle, thus leading to the surrender of France to the Nazis.

" Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat, the Historian's Craft and World War II: Writing and Teaching Contemporary History.

* Strange Defeat: The Fall of France, 1940 ( 2006 )

Ulmer's other noirs include Strange Illusion ( 1945 ), also for PRC ; Ruthless ( 1948 ), for Eagle-Lion, which had acquired PRC the previous year ; and Murder Is My Beat ( 1955 ), for Allied Artists.

Moon was credited as composer of " I Need You ", which he also sang, and the instrumental " Cobwebs and Strange " ( from the album A Quick One, 1966 ), the single B-sides " In The City " ( co-written by Moon and Entwistle ), " Dogs Part Two " ( 1969 ) ( sharing credits with Townshend's and Entwistle's dogs, Towser and Jason ), " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( 1969 ), " Waspman " ( 1972 ), and " Girl's Eyes " ( from The Who Sell Out sessions ; featured on Thirty Years of Maximum R & B and a 1995 re-release of The Who Sell Out ).

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

* Radio 1 Sessions Volume 1 ; 1981-83 ( Strange Fruit, 2003 )

* Radio 1 Sessions Volume 2 ; 1984-85 ( Strange Fruit, 2003 )

; Strange Little Tour: This tour was Amos's first since becoming a mother in 2000 and her first tour fully solo since 1994 ( Steve Caton was present on some songs in 1996 ).

Nudism would not appear again in Heinlein's work until 1957's The Door Into Summer ; free love next made an appearance in 1961, in Stranger in a Strange Land.

According to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly was seen in Japan as the personification of a person's soul ; whether they be living, dying, or already dead.

Also appearing are Jubal Harshaw, a major character in Stranger in a Strange Land ; Dr. Galahad, of Time Enough for Love ; and Manuel Garcia O ' Kelly Davis, the first-person voice of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

Although commonly referred to as simply Robinson Crusoe, the book ’ s complete, original title as it appears on the title page of the first edition is The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque ; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.

Commonly, longer novellas are referred to as novels ; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Heart of Darkness are sometimes called novels, as are many science fiction works such as The War of the Worlds and Armageddon 2419 A. D. Less often, longer works are referred to as novellas.

* Pendle, George ; Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, Harcourt, 2005

Ben briefly appeared in Amazing Spider-Man # 500 ; after Spider-Man played a vital role in preventing the resurrection of Dormammu, an unidentified higher power provided Doctor Strange with a small box that he felt he had to give to Spider-Man as a reward for his role in events.

Most commonly, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book ; a few representative examples are: " grok " ( to achieve complete intuitive understanding ), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; " McJob ", from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ; " cyberspace ", from Neuromancer by William Gibson ; " nymphet " from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

One was a non-fiction magazine entitled Strange ; the other was If.

Most significantly this included: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ; The Crucible by Arthur Miller ; The Cask of Amontillado, The Premature Burial, The Pit and the Pendulum & The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe ; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ; The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ; Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens ; The Monkey's Paw by Guy de Maupaussant ; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ; The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft ; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ; The Lottery by Shirley Jackson ; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

* Strange Evidence ( 1933 )

* Strange Evidence ( 1933 )

* Strange Evidence ( 1933 )

Written by Ian Thomas ( brother of comedian Dave Thomas of Strange Brew fame ), and produced by Bobby Colomby, the single barely missed a spot in the Top Forty during early 1983.

Written by Strange with Visage mk II member Ross Tregenza, the track was co-produced by original Visage member Dave Formula.

Written by J. Michael Straczynski and Samm Barnes, with artwork by Brandon Peterson, Strange is a re-imagining of Doctor Strange's origin.

Written by Dave Gibbons, and illustrated by Ivan Reis, Marc Campos, and John Kalisz, the series concerns a war between the planets Rann and Thanagar, and features Adam Strange, the Green Lantern Corps, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, L. E. G. I. O. N.

Written by Jim Krieg and Directed by Brandon Vietti, it featured Batman, Aquaman and Adam Strange rescuing Alanna Strange and Rann from certain doom.

She broke from formula by taking the unglamorous role of Julie in Strange Cargo ( 1940 ), her eighth and final film with Gable.

* Strange Cargo ( 1940 )

* Strange Cargo ( 1940 )

* Strange Cargo ( 1940 ; adaptation ; uncredited )

* Strange Cargo ( 1940 )

* Dr. Kildare's Strange Case ( 1940 )

It was first published in the September 1940 issue Super Science Stories magazine as " Strange Playfellow ", a title that was chosen by editor Frederik Pohl and described as " distasteful " by Asimov.

Strange went on to be decorated for bravery in combat in both world wars, and help to initiate, develop and organise the UK's sole parachute training facility at RAF Ringway near Manchester in 1940, and then the catapult Hurricane system ( CAM ship ).

His work after 1940 took a turn into religiosity in such films as Strange Cargo ( 1940 ) and The Big Fisherman ( 1959 ).

* 1940: Strange Cargo

* Dr. Kildare's Strange Case ( 1940 )

His daughter, Esme Eleanor Howard, married the Reverend John William Fletcher Boughey, son of the Reverend Percy Fletcher Boughey and Elsie de Strange Herring, on 25 April 1940.

Doc Strange is a fictional character, a comic book superhero who originally appeared in Thrilling Comics # 1 ( Better Publications ( also called Nedor Comics ) 1940 ).

* Strange Cargo ( 1940 )

A similar oddities cartoon feature, Strange as it Seems by John Hix, appeared prior to Election Day 1940, with " CURSE OVER THE WHITE HOUSE!

* The Strange Lives of One Man ( 1940 )

* Strange Cargo ( 1940 film ), starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable