Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Colditz" ¶ 15
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

story and wartime
Pacepa indicated that he was involved in contacting eastern bloc agents close the Vatican in order to fabricate the story to be used for the attack against the wartime pope.
Other relatives include British Canadian CBC wartime broadcaster Peter Stursberg, whose 2002 book No Foreign Bones in China records the story of the Anglo-Japanese couple, and his son, current CBC vice-president Richard Stursberg.
He appeared in the 1955 BBC Television serial Quatermass II, had a role in the Powell and Pressburger wartime drama Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), and came to wide popular attention in Britain when he played the duplicitous Spanish envoy Mendoza in the ITC Entertainment series Sir Francis Drake ( 1961 – 62 ), after which he was much in demand ; an ' in-joke ' in the 1971 Doctor Who story Colony in Space refers to that role: the Brigadier tells the Doctor not to worry — the suspected sighting of the Master was only the Spanish Ambassador!
Any loopholes in his story he ( and his listeners ) attributed to wartime trauma and still existing security restrictions.
In Angus Calder's re-examination of the ideological constructs surrounding " Little England " during World War II in The Myth of the Blitz, he puts forward the view that the story of Deep England was central to wartime propaganda operations within the United Kingdom, and then, as now, served a clearly defined political and cultural purpose in the hands of various interested agencies.
Its plot ( concerned with a German commando unit sent into England to kidnap Winston Churchill ) was fresh and innovative ( although the plot is clearly reminiscent of Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime film Went the Day Well ?, which itself was directly based on the 1942 Graham Greene short story The Lieutenant Died Last ), and the characters had significantly more depth than in his earlier work.
Another popular song is " Fifty German bombers over Flint ", which tells the story of a wartime bombing raid over nearby Liverpool that accidentally targeted the town of Flint instead.
Both Allen Dulles, wartime head of the OSS, and Franz von Papen, suggested that there was more to the story than what had emerged in the book.
The story concerns three American sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City during wartime 1944.
The official Polish accounts of Morel's wartime activities however, differ substantially from his own story.
It is the story of the son of a Holocaust survivor who gets entangled in an international conspiracy by industrialists and financiers to take advantage of wartime technology.
The story of her wartime activities was included in the book series " The Canadians: Biography of a Nation ", edited by Patrick Watson.
Although considered a wartime propaganda film, and made under the authority of the Ministry of Information as part of a series of film productions specifically aimed at morale in the United Kingdom, the story and production values elevated it from the usual jingoistic fare.
A temporary exhibition illustrates the story of wartime evacuees to the village and the US Army stationed nearby at the Sarsden estate.
One noteworthy wartime incident was the story of Oberleutnant Arnim Faber, Adjutant of III fighter Gruppe of JG2 who, on the 23rd of June 1942 had engaged Spitfires over the south coast of Britain and on heading towards Exeter, mistook the Bristol Channel for the English Channel.
As Byron attempts to find out what is happening to them, eventually tracking them down amidst the chaos of wartime Europe, the story of the Holocaust is gradually revealed to the American government and people.
With Dahl's assistance, a series of gremlin characters were developed, and while pre-production had begun, the film project was eventually abandoned, in part because the studio could not establish the precise rights of the " gremlin " story, and in part because the British Air Ministry that was heavily involved in the production because Dahl was on leave from his wartime Washington posting, insisted on final approval of script and production.
Violette explains that her grandmother had told her the story of a wartime love affair that she had with Silas Brown, Charlie Brown's grandfather, who was an infantryman stationed in France during the First World War, and stayed at the Chateau.
In an early role, he performed on stage with Henry Fonda in the classic wartime story Mister Roberts.
His final conclusions and corrections to the story of wartime codebreaking were contained in a paper published posthumously in 1986 ( Welchman having died in 1985 ) ' From Polish Bomba to British Bombe: the birth of Ultra ' in Intelligence & National Security, Vol 1, No l. The entire paper was included in the revised edition of The Hut Six Story published in 1997 by M & M Baldwin.

story and prisoners
The film, accused of fascism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, tells the story of the U. S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a Turkish soldier ; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv.
Other variations of this story had him also winning the release of his fellow Thai prisoners.
" The sprawling screenplay told the story of Union cavalry officer Major Dundee who commands a New Mexico outpost of Confederate prisoners.
The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape.
The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) was the story of British and American prisoners of war fighting for survival in a Japanese prison camp during World War II.
It tells the story of the American Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence in the closing days of World War II.
The author notes prisoners were hauled in " mule-drawn wagons ", and the mention of chain gangs places an upper limit to the story of 1955 when the practice ended.
* 1971, 2007 Hindi war film based on a true story of prisoners of war after the Indo-Pak war of 1971, directed by Amrit Sagar
The story tells of the capture of Prince Igor and son Vladimir of Russia by Polovtsian leader Khan Konchak, who entertains his prisoners lavishly and calls on his slaves to perform the famous Polovtsian dances, which provide a thrilling climax to the second act.
Many European prisoners were slaughtered or sold as slaves ; the minnesinger Michael Beheim wrote a song based on the story of one Hans Mergest who spent 16 years in Ottoman captivity after the battle.
On July 17, 2009, in an article published by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Dostum, recently reappointed to his government job by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, again described Doran's film as a " fake story ", saying that the whole number of prisoners of war captured by his troops was less than the number Doran's film claimed had been killed, and denying there could have been any abuse of prisoners.
The prisoners were held within the 5-7 story towers, each having a room around 4. 6 m ( 15 ft ) across and containing various articles of furniture.
Another factor against the South American story is that all British prisoners held by the Spanish in Chile and Peru were freed in 1808 and returned to Europe.
After the battle of Talas, knowledgeable Chinese prisoners of war were ordered to produce paper in Samarkand, or so the story goes.
The book is told in the form of Sacchetti's diary, and includes literary references to the story of Faust ( at one point the prisoners stage Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Sacchetti's friendship with ringleader Mordecai Washington parallels Faust's with Mephistopheles ).
The eponymous story coldly depicts a situation in which prisoners are condemned to death.
So the story of tradesman that things have turned out several dozen toilets Saudi prince overlaid plates, an accountant who is obsessed with breaking the codes for the lottery, an attacker FC fighter who was so lazy to nap while his colleagues are building an action, the decades of silence prisoners with Goli, camp for those who have strayed from Tito's political views.
According to the story, four prisoners are arrested for a crime, but the jail is full and the jailer has nowhere to put them.
The story in The Guardian tells of a correlation between techniques routinely used in RTI and those allegedly used on prisoners at Abu Ghraib, but offers no definitive proof of causation.
Pat Reid describes in his book the story of a package of records that was sent to Colditz prisoners in the Second World War.
Since the 1992 reboot and especially since the 2007 time jump, the strip has been recast as a drama, featuring story arcs revolving around such topics as terminal cancer, adoption, prisoners of war, drug abuse, post traumatic stress, and same sex couples attending the senior prom.
The film told the story of prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp who risk their lives to hide a Jewish boy.
Not permitted access to writing materials, he recited the story orally to other prisoners before it was written down and smuggled out.

1.910 seconds.