| 单词 | world war |
| 例句 | They discussed whether Adam and Eve had been real people or whether there would ever be another world war. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If he’d still been up there last night I might have shot his Friendship 7 space capsule out of the air and started a world war. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mo had parked in the village square beside the memorial for the dead of two world wars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The voice that could order a squadron from the heavens to set fire to Havana or to decimate a Russian fleet or to start a world war. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure I can talk about the way things changed for women during both world wars. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I had read the dramatic poetry of Wilfred Owen, who had been killed in the first world war, and took to filling pages with my own romantic poetry about the nurse, war, and heroic deaths. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “That’s the kind of a place I’m in with a world war going on. A school for photographers of beaver dams.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She had seen many mountains that even a world war had not destroyed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They knew there was a world war going on: It meant that they were cold and hungry, separated from family and home—some of them even from their own children. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As far as he knew, which seemed pretty far, he was the only person still alive who had fought in both of the world wars. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z This incident could spark a third world war! The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z This hegemony looked likely to continue indefinitely But even without the catastrophe of two world wars, the Austro- German dynasty was coming to an end. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Two world wars ago, battlefield nurses gave cups of tea to the wounded and it leaked through their bullet holes and killed them. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Just twenty years after the end of World War I, it looked like a second world war was about to explode. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the Bible it says Thou shalt not kill but there were the Crusades and two world wars and the Gulf War and there were Christians killing people in all of them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was already thinking about the role America’s scientists might play in the world war lurking on the horizon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But in the years between the two world wars, children in Soviet schools were treated with complete gender equality, with girls and boys studying the same subjects. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik—that’s all ancient history now. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He’s Team Pepsi in the world war of Pepsi versus Coke, but he was so happy seeing his name in that bodega fridge that he couldn’t resist. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Between these two works, the Canadian James Ehnes was the soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto, written just before the second world war. BSO/Karabits – review 2012-11-30T17:56:34Z Before the first world war, my grandmother, whose aunt lived there, played on the beaches and in the same rockpools where my children do. Postcard from the future: Tiree, Scotland, my ‘dream of an island’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z With no records of the lizard on the islands prior to the second world war — the first confirmed record is 1969 — the introduction appears to be a recent, although successful, one. New to Nature No 79: Nactus kunan 2012-08-04T23:05:20Z Together with Frank Bridge's masterpiece Oration, EJ Moeran's work is one of the two great British cello concertos that followed the example set by Elgar in the wake of the first world war. Moeran: Cello Concerto; Serenade, etc – review 2013-04-25T12:58:27Z A aegypti was mostly found in Africa until around the time of the second world war. Can GM mosquitoes rid the world of a major killer? 2012-07-14T23:05:51Z The poster was commissioned during the second world war, but was never officially released. 'My best travel discovery of 2016' 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z This was an era when women had greater opportunities to succeed, Garbutt argues, suggesting that they found grudging acceptance when jobs needed filling after so many men had died in the world wars. She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z It’s an astonishing story about a German-American military pilot called Dieter Dengler who grew up in Germany during the second world war, then went to America, enlisted in the air force and fought in Vietnam. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Victory Girls would have told the story of a group of women working in a first world war munitions factory in Preston. Rita Tushingham on life after A Taste of Honey: 'It was a shock when the 60s ended' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z After serving in the army during the second world war, he went to Hollywood, where he directed Marilyn Monroe in the 1962 movie Don't Bother to Knock. Roy Ward Baker, director of A Night to Remember, dies at 93 2010-10-08T00:06:00Z Painted shortly after the first world war when Matisse was depressed, it is an optimistic statement of his intent to paint in the future. Andy Warhol 'ghost' painting up for auction at Sotheby's 2010-04-16T16:24:00Z A lifelong pacifist, he was imprisoned during the second world war for conscientious objection. James Stevens obituary 2012-08-02T09:00:02Z The second world war had a profound effect on the East End, and on the Central line itself. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z His last film, La France, made a musical of the first world war. Cannes 2013: Tip Top - first look review 2013-05-19T17:23:25Z Only unusual events, like the two world wars and the Depression of the 1930s, disrupt that normal equilibrium. The new wave 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Glass is concerned only with the British and Americans in the second world war, whose official attitudes to the problem were tortuous. Deserter: The Untold Story of WWII by Charles Glass – review 2013-03-28T11:00:01Z His piece here, an excerpt from a novel about the second world war, is sensitive, capable and intelligent. Best of Young British Novelists 4, edited by John Freeman – review 2013-04-16T14:14:05Z Her interest in music, dancing and dramatics led her to join the Pilgrim Players, with whom she performed all over the country during the second world war. Hazel Yarwood obituary 2013-06-11T09:26:05Z Few European countries had Picassos in their public collections until after the second world war; the Netherlands, for example, with stronger modernist credentials than Britain, publicly owned no Picasso painting until the 50s. Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z He wrote novellas and short stories about penniless artists and poets, mostly before or during the first world war. How to visit Amsterdam while stuck at home in lockdown 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z But during his career, which took him to Paris between the two world wars and, in 1941, to the United States, he was absorbed by opera, including experimental works incorporating film. Review: Leon Botstein Dusts Off a Surreal 1930s Opera 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The second world war interrupted his studies and he did not progress to the fourth year of research that was usual for Oxford chemists. Frank Greenaway obituary 2013-07-16T16:48:05Z Late in the second world war, German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun considered that he was "but a step" from setting up a space satellite. Iron Sky loses the Nazi plot on a cheap moon set 2012-05-24T14:18:38Z The fact that Wilfred Owen wrote the greatest poems of the first world war in the heat of battle does not shake the prejudice. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z After her death in 1939 and the second world war, his feelings became more noticeable in the empty seascapes that Lowry talked about in terms of the ebb and flow and immensity of life. LS Lowry exhibition in Salford reveals artist's dark side 2013-06-19T16:33:18Z But the religion of the Catholic novel of the post-first world war era rarely comes undiluted. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Cézanne got there first, then the abstract painters pushed still further: Kandinsky and Miró point towards the profound realities of quantum physics as these gradually emerged after the first world war. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z Go back to the 1970s, after the obsession with retelling the legends of world war two wore off, to find a multitude of films about the common man. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Instead, she's a patient in a second world war hospital, and Bacchus, her heroic saviour, is a Spitfire pilot. Ariadne ducks the bombs at the Glyndebourne festival 2013-05-15T18:00:02Z From the start of the second world war, the family was continuously on the move to avoid the father being interned with other British Nazis. Tom Sharpe, Wilt novelist, dies aged 85 2013-06-06T09:45:25Z His father, Giuseppe, who ran a fish and chip shop, was interned on the Isle of Man when the second world war broke out. Victor Spinetti obituary 2012-06-19T17:31:57Z Following Easy Company from D-Day to the end of the second world war in Europe, it is TV on a scale and budget that viewers had never seen before its release. Six to watch: US miniseries 2012-08-06T09:57:28Z Clare Considine A documentary that tells the story of 12 catastrophic weeks in the Pacific theatre of the second world war. TV highlights 21/05/2012 2012-05-20T19:00:08Z After serving in the Marines for four years during the second world war, Seltzer returned to Hollywood as director of publicity at Hal Wallis Productions, whose films were released by Paramount. Walter Seltzer obituary 2011-04-05T17:25:40Z LaBeouf will star with Brad Pitt in the upcoming second world war drama Fury, scheduled to be released later this year. Shia LeBeouf pleads guilty to charges stemming from Cabaret disruption 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z While not dealing directly with the first world war and the poet's pacifism, "Hymn of Hymns" plainly reveals a mind repelled by heroics. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z In the first world war, the British shot 304 men for desertion or cowardice, only gradually accepting the notion of "shell-shock". Deserter: The Untold Story of WWII by Charles Glass – review 2013-03-28T11:00:01Z Superman came in 1938, a response to the Great Depression; Batman in 1939, with the beginnings of the second world war. 'These men are bad role models': will my son get over his superhero obsession? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Freshly blessed with six Oscar nominations, Mel Gibson’s new second world war film Hacksaw Ridge doesn’t just raise the bar for combat scenes. – it annihilates it. The best battle scenes ever shot from Apocalypse Now to Hacksaw Ridge 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The first film to benefit is Lore, Cate Shortland's acclaimed drama set in Germany in the immediate aftermath of the second world war. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters captures top spot 2013-03-05T17:18:56Z During and just after the second world war, we hated and feared Germans, so we tortured them. Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain - review 2012-11-23T08:00:01Z He served with distinction in the first world war, and became the founder of the Imperial Bureau of Animal Nutrition, then director of research and professor of agriculture at Aberdeen. John Boyd Orr by Alasdair Gray 2011-08-12T21:55:16Z It was inspired by the true story of Dynamo Kiev's players, who defeated Nazi soldiers while Ukraine was occupied by Nazi troops in the second world war. Vinnie Jones keen for David Beckham to slip into Bobby Moore's shoes for an Escape to Victory remake 2010-03-23T11:51:00Z But, like many actors, he found his career interrupted by the second world war. Richard Pearson obituary 2011-08-02T19:32:58Z During and after the second world war the research body Mass Observation explored new trends in clothing and appearance. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Despite battles with persistent antiSemitism—described euphemistically in letters as “the old, old story”—Bernard became a successful doctor, taking time off from a busy career to serve king and country in two world wars. England, my England 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Its settings spanned medieval England to the first world war. Blackadder new series on the cards, says Tony Robinson 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Cottage cheese was once a reliable character actor, standing in for meat during two world wars, filling in for ricotta and starring on diet plates. Is America Ready to Love Cottage Cheese Again? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “Games Without Frontiers,” in many ways, *is* The Americans: tense, sly, sinuous, its lyrics contrasting the banal and the menacing, imagining world war as a kind of internationalist Lord of the Flies child’s game. The Americans Watch: It’s a Knockout 2013-05-02T09:45:37Z Nearly 500 pages on what British POWs got up to during the second world war? The Barbed-Wire University by Midge Gillies – review 2012-06-12T10:37:18Z Suddenly the auditorium is filled with pale, grey shades from various points in history – a Napoleonic soldier, a nurse from the second world war, a skin-headed spectre in rolled-up jeans. A Christmas Carol ? review 2010-12-07T21:30:00Z The horror of the first world war is all the more intense because of the disparity between people's expectations – the pro-war euphoria that swept European cities in August 1914 – and the reality of mass slaughter. Jon Savage on song: The Zombies ? Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) 2011-03-17T09:32:54Z "The generation who had immigrated to England to work in that period after the second world war would return to Jamaica wearing these Clarks, and people developed a fascination," Ranx says. Vybz Kartel puts Clarks footprint on Jamaica 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z After attending Columbia University, Lumet was in the US army signal corps during the second world war, and served in Burma and India. Sidney Lumet obituary 2011-04-10T16:59:14Z Two devastating world wars had prompted some idealists to wonder if a cross-cultural exchange of children’s books might have some small role to play in setting the stage for a more peaceful future. The Caldecott Medal Needs an International Makeover 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Fighting the Red Baron At the start of the first world war aerial combat hadn't been invented; enemy pilots would wave as they passed by each other. Aida 2010-06-04T05:45:00Z Christianity and the horrors of the second world war are fed into the mix, too, as the book tries – with an elusive logic typical of Sjón – to unify its disparate themes. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z Objective, Burma! was made immediately after the events it depicts and before the end of the second world war. Objective, Burma! – liberating cinema from the truth 2012-11-30T10:56:18Z But after the second world war these magnificent ideas, combined with those of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, produced an anonymous, international style with high-rises that shut people up with geometric precision. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z "A lot of tweeters in the U.K. and the U.S. act like I just caused a third world war!" New research suggests that French fries may be more detrimental to our health than we thought 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was instrumental in re-introducing his previously agnostic friend to Christianity while the pair were academics at Oxford prior to the second world war. Theological JRR Tolkein biopic secures Expendables 2 director 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Also on view is Roth himself, increasingly alarmed by Europe’s descent into violence between the two world wars — and by the descent of his beloved wife into schizophrenia. Stories That Survive the Horrors of War 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z By the second world war the surrealist movement had ebbed, and suspicions that Schiaparelli had been a collaborator had taken root. Nonparelli 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He moved to New York with his family soon after the end of the second world war. Leo Steinberg obituary 2011-04-12T16:56:17Z It is a byword for mass poverty, violent extremism and the gathering storm of world war. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The public's taste for Walpole's overstuffed historical romances waned rapidly after the second world war. Rogue Herries – review 2013-03-27T18:19:40Z He’s worried, he says, about our habit of immortalising an actor “at a certain fixed time” in their career: Laurence Olivier at around 40, Sean Connery as Bond, Jimmy Stewart after the second world war. Ralph Fiennes: Loosey Goosey? ‘I like that!’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z As the second world war approached, there was a general move to modernise the home and avoid the need for servants. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z After the second world war and white flight from city to suburb, the lawn became an aspirational symbol of white middle-class homeownership. Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Pigeons performed heroic tasks as the carriers of important messages during the world wars. Pigeons make music with whistles 2013-06-26T05:22:59Z He went to Yale University, but his studies were interrupted by the second world war, during which he served as an engineer in the naval air corps. DA Pennebaker obituary 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Letter: Memories of the Bucovina To the Editor: There are two books that capture the world of the Bucovina between the world wars. Letter: Memories Of the Bucovina 2010-07-02T14:50:00Z They replaced the play's love-triangle plot and back-from-the-dead ending with a less conventional structure, meant to illuminate the changing character of the English middle class over the course of the second world war. Anthony Asquith emerges from Hitchcock's shadow 2011-04-06T15:13:47Z Rae Smith’s handsome sets, depicting the same Sicilian village square before and after the world wars, pull the two operas together. Review: In Pairing of ‘Pagliacci’ and ‘Cavalleria Rusticana,’ One Rises Above the Other 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z When Vonnegut was 20, it was the middle of the second world war and he was a soldier. My hero: Kurt Vonnegut by Alison Moore 2012-10-05T21:55:18Z At the industry’s high point there, in the period immediately before the first world war, 2m-3m barrels were caught each year. Net worth 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Jolie’s move into directing was designed to complement her activist work, with films about the Bosnian war, a second world war PoW and the Khmer Rouge. Every Angelina Jolie film performance – ranked! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z After fighting in Italy with the Grenadier Guards in the second world war, King-Smith was a farmer for 20 years before turning to teaching and came to writing late in life. Babe creator Dick King-Smith dies aged 88 2011-01-05T15:50:12Z In the 1950s the US was telling itself a mythic, grandiose, heroic story about the second world war and GI Joe saving the world. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z This book is a tour around some of the most important and dangerous frontlines of what many historians now call the fourth world war. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z At the moment he is engrossed in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration which describes the effects of shell shock in the first world war. Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z Her father was a schoolteacher and her mother had been a nurse during the first world war. Rosemary Gill obituary 2011-03-18T18:47:51Z Bailey Johnson had returned from the first world war with officer's honours and a fake French accent. All about my mother 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z Hoping never to see another world war, several countries got together and in 1919 created a group dedicated to world peace. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation It tells the story of a family from after the first world war until the late 1940s – and clocks in at five hours uncut, though the National will trim it to under four. Season revealed 2013-01-30T16:33:11Z As that story is usually told, for the first half of the 20th century the innovative centre was Europe, before the old world was overtaken in the aftermath of the second world war by America. The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z In France, the Louvre Museum turned for its latest expansion to an abandoned coal mining site in the depressed northern town of Lens that was pummeled by the two world wars. Germany's Ruhr turns from coal to creativity 2010-06-29T16:08:00Z This satire about a demented visitor from outer space who arrives in Virginia with the hope of starting a third world war recalls Wilde and Shaw, though it reverberates with Vidal's own unmistakable tone. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z First world war thriller directed by Sam Mendes about a perilous mission in the trenches, conceived and filmed as a “one shot” drama. The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z As the second world war threatened, he became increasingly political. Michael Sayers 2010-06-09T17:45:00Z Butoh, which incorporated elements of existentialism, surrealism, German expressionism, kabuki theatre and eastern spiritual thought, was a reaction in part to the horrors of the second world war. Kazuo Ohno obituary 2010-06-07T17:40:00Z They have been produced and used on a large scale in a wide range of industrial and commercial applications since the second world war. How safe is it to drink rainwater? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z At the start of the first world war, the Ottoman government ordered their mass deportation. Gunning for the G-word 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z At the time it seemed almost incidental that he used a slowed-down piece of first world war footage of a shell-shocked patient to make this eerie sequence of images. Why the art of war is hell 2013-07-25T14:36:27Z The seventh of eight children, he grew up during the upheavals in Europe that led to two world wars, the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z Inspired by her grandfather's experiences in the first world war trenches, Barker's novel is set in the Craiglockhart war hospital, where soldiers were "cured" of psychological trauma before being sent back to the front. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-06-29T10:01:35Z During the first world war it was used as a military hospital. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z The previous day he claimed that transgender people are launching a “world war against marriage.” Pope Francis’ LGBT failure: Vulnerable transgender community needs his active support now 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z During the last vestiges of the second world war, the building was set up as an emergency field hospital by the British 1st Airborne Division. Oosterbeek echoes to the battle of Arnhem: my tour guide’s vivid war memories 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z They'd rather have been in the second world war, which, in retrospect, was a clean, understandable war. Kill List brings the horror home 2011-08-26T23:02:00Z I've given several people books in Collins's Britain in Pictures series, published as a patriotic exercise during the second world war. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z I remember disputed sandwiches and broken Lego and world war three. After 40 years I finally tracked down my dead brother 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Barry captures this unfolding life, punctuated by the wider events of history – the second world war, the civil rights movement, Vietnam – with a vivid lyricism. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry ? review 2011-08-11T11:15:01Z But it is also because Humboldt suffers, given the legacy of two world wars, from having been German. Man of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Another uncle, Sidney, went to Egypt before the first world war and found a job there in a shipping office for Leopold. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z For that reason alone, in both countries, the revisiting of one of the second world war's most brutal campaigns is a necessary corrective. Why America preferred to forget about the Pacific war ? until now 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z There was also the long shadow of the second world war – the bombsites, the violent explosions and unspoken psychological damage that lay behind the stiff upper lip which had made survival possible. Jon Savage on song: The Zombies ? Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) 2011-03-17T09:32:54Z In the Resistance series, the second world war ends and aliens invade, first Europe then, in Burning Skies, fortress America. This week's new games 2012-06-01T23:06:07Z Boyle then served in the army signal corps in France and Germany as a combat photographer during the second world war. Robert Boyle obituary 2010-08-10T17:21:00Z It is just like the jokes and pet names painted on world war two bombers. Prince Harry makes war look more Top Gun than Wilfred Owen 2013-01-22T12:00:03Z It marked the passing of a first age of globalisation that had flourished in the decades before the first world war with free movements of capital, freedom and – to a lesser extent – goods. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Notwithstanding the privations and danger, she worked at the Swedish embassy in Budapest during the second world war, courageously providing false passports and shelter for numerous Hungarian Jews. Vera R?zsa obituary 2010-11-22T18:20:00Z Her grandmother was a munitions worker during the second world war and then worked in a sheet glass factory – experiences that Riseborough drew on for her role in Made in Dagenham. The rise of Andrea Riseborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z But once the second world war was won, this position became less tenable. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z In Colonel Blimp, first world war conscripts do not remember the Boer war, fought just a decade earlier. Good fellows: Martin Scorsese and Colonel Blimp 2012-10-28T13:00:01Z Meyer, who worked as a combat cameraman in the second world war before moving into film-making, directed a string of camp, bizarre films that proved highly profitable, including Faster, Pussycat! Will Ferrell slated to play Russ Meyer in Russ and Roger Go Beyond 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Photograph: AP JD Salinger's austere public image has been belied by the memories of an old comrade from the second world war, who has been reminiscing about their friendship after unveiling a hitherto unseen correspondence. JD Salinger comrade recalls 'emotional and warm' friend 2010-03-19T16:00:00Z But Jones didn’t want a whole production about Europeans and the world wars, so he added a middle section, “Analogy/Lance: Pretty a.k.a. the Escape Artist,” about his nephew, Lance Briggs. Dancemaker Bill T. Jones isn’t always sure art is useful. Here’s why he keeps at it. 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z You sometimes wonder how all these scarf-fluttering, slipperette-wearing individuals avoided the agonies of the first world war and the Russian revolution. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z His cultural horizons were extended when he was evacuated during the second world war to the Truro home of Canon Gotto, a cultivated cleric with an enormous library and presence in local cultural life. Bryan Forbes: British writer, actor and film director 2013-05-09T07:27:27Z For all the great poems, novels and movies produced by the first world war, nothing quite matches theatre for pulverising your emotions. The Accrington Pals – review 2013-01-22T12:14:09Z A third world war has blanketed Earth in nuclear waste. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948,” encompassing both world wars and the struggle for Indian independence, is a portrait of a complex man whose remarkable tenacity remained constant, even when his beliefs changed. A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z After 100 million dead in two world wars, this scourge seemed to have yielded to “tailor-made” force: hybrid warfare, “little green men,” tightly targeted drones. World War II, Ukraine and the Future of Conflict 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z While doing second world war factory work, she went to the Caribbean Club, near Piccadilly, where the proprietor, Rudy Evans, hired her as a waitress. Josie Miller 2010-04-29T17:38:00Z His mother fostered his interest in art and, after the second world war, during which he was evacuated to north Wales, Terry went to Wimbledon School of Art. Terry Ball obituary 2011-03-22T18:24:10Z Revived by the Gingold Theatrical Group, the play invites itself to an Edwardian house party as a world war looms. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z A leather football that British soldiers dribbled through no man's land while coming under machine-gun fire during a first world war battle has been saved for posterity after being discovered in an old box. First world war soldiers' historic football saved for posterity 2011-03-10T14:55:06Z Dwight Eisenhower spent his life repressing his inner self, and it helped the Allies win the second world war. You are not special 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z His story is told against, and intercut with, that of Germany's history from 1923, the year of his birth, to the end of the second world war. Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend by Catrine Clay 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z It’s like the atomic dilemma at the end of the second world war. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The images were also used for meticulous repair and rebuilding, in the same way that Canaletto paintings were vital in the recreation of razed areas of Warsaw after the second world war. Hull blitz photos mark 70th anniversary of city's destruction 2011-03-22T11:29:25Z This diet was initially devised by the US physiologist Ancel Keys after the second world war as a healthier alternative to more fat-based nutritional patterns. Do Flamenco and the Mediterranean diet really deserve special UN status? 2010-11-22T13:00:00Z Born just before the first world war, Parkinson lived through a century of extreme change and yet his pictures did not get relegated to yesterday's model. Sir Norman Parkinson, fashion photographer, celebrated in Google doodle 2013-04-21T11:51:32Z After two world wars, though, the glamour had begun to fade. Men at arms 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The monument is dedicated to the some half a million Red Army soldiers who died during the second world war battle to defend the city. Russia 2018: A beginners' guide 2010-12-03T12:59:04Z Born in Toulouse as Laurent Tchemerzine, he was the son of a Russian sculptor who emigrated to France at the end of the first world war, and a French mother, who worked in ceramics. Laurent Terzieff obituary 2010-07-21T17:58:00Z First broadcast in November, this is the story of the battle for north Africa during the second world war. TV highlights 05/04/2013 2013-04-05T06:00:02Z Born at the end of the 19th century, Liatoshynsky lived through the Ukrainian War of Independence, the rise of Lenin and Stalin and both world wars. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z I think that the first world war hasn't been done properly yet. Ralf Little's favourite TV 2013-04-29T11:00:00Z After he graduated from Brooklyn technical high school in 1943, second world war service intervened. Richard Matheson, author of I Am Legend and inspiration to Stephen King 2013-06-25T12:40:13Z Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, an alcoholic navy veteran who, when the second world war ends, finds himself adrift and broken. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-03-09T06:00:09Z During the second world war, he volunteered for the RAF and became a navigator in 84 Squadron. Douglas Argent obituary 2010-12-06T17:59:00Z He is a soldier fighting in the first world war in France before that happens, but he rescues it and brings it back to England, along with his new wife Millie. Lauren St John's top 10 animal adventures 2011-07-21T09:20:04Z Within seconds they're soldiers struggling through the mud of a first world war battlefield. Tull – review 2013-03-10T00:05:32Z There is a natural and proper sensitivity with regard to any triumphalism, about the first world war as about any war. Should the country spend £55m to commemorate the first world war? 2013-05-25T16:45:01Z When the second world war broke out, Wisdom joined the Army and served in India. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary 2010-10-05T00:01:00Z The inspiration for the movie “Blade Runner,” “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is set in 2021, after a world war has killed millions of people, driving entire species into extinction. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z A recipient of the Iron Cross for actions on the eastern front in the first world war, he is exempt from some of the antisemitic legislation being enacted. Chris Weitz: once upon a time in East LA 2011-07-28T20:55:01Z Neither was Roosevelt afraid to ruffle feathers during the second world war. FDR for beginners 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “If you ask people which wars of the 20th century were genuinely worth fighting, most of them would say, only the second world war,” he says. Kill shots: why cinema has drone warfare in its sights 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Oliver disputed this, saying: “He just needs one person to tell him that world war one was called the great war and he’s going to want to have a better one out of sheer pettiness.” John Oliver on Trump's budget cuts: 'impatient, vain and horny for malice' 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z In 1946, the year he met Pidgeon, Bowers was competing with millions of other returning second world war veterans for work. Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z He would vividly recall being a night-time fire watchman during the second world war, sweeping incendiaries off the rooftops from around the Royal Albert Hall. David Tod Boyd obituary 2012-11-15T15:25:29Z We are trapped in history, poised between two world wars. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Yet between the world wars his cantata-trilogy The Song Of Hiawatha, based upon Longfellow's poems, was one of the staples of the English choral repertory. Mike Heron & Trembling Bells, Eyehategod, Pharoah Sanders: this week's new live music 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove At the start of the first world war, Brighton's Royal Pavilion served as a hospital for Indian troops – priceless propaganda in recruiting soldiers from the subcontinent. Royal treatment: Brighton Royal Pavilion's role as a first world war hospital for Indian troops 2010-04-18T20:00:00Z My great grandfather was a regular fellow who was very enamoured by his officers in the trenches during the first world war. Sam Riley shot to fame as the doomed Ian Curtis in Control. Now he's playing creepy Pinkie in Brighton Rock 2011-01-12T08:00:03Z But Britain has seen off the Romans, been ruled by Tudors and Stuarts, built and then lost an empire, and fought all the way through two world wars. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z This is the closing sequence to Dad's Army, Britain's much-loved TV comedy about the second world war, produced in the late 1960s/early 1970s and repeated ever since. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z Education is necessary to move beyond the common understanding of the first world war. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z Directed by Michael Curtiz, this story of rootless refugees from the second world war, washed up in a city, which stamps its personality on every frame, feels both timely and timeless. The nine greatest best picture winners at the Oscars 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Reach for the Sky, the biopic of double amputee air ace Douglas Bader made a particular impact, as Gilbert profited from the burgeoning interest in heroic stories about the second world war. Spy Who Loved Me director Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Thomas recognised the distinctively industrialised nature of the first world war: it was a vast machine designed, as he put it, "to turn young men to dung". Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:07Z JW Why does so much of Britain's campaigning history in the second world war revolve around north Africa and the much-storied Desert Rats? TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z Reading Dante, in particular, McGrath says, helped heal the trauma of active service in the first world war and guide him to God. CS Lewis: A Life – review 2013-04-14T07:00:01Z Grayling's approach to religion, like his approach to morality, draws on the work of Russell – particularly the method of "logical analysis" that Russell initially expounded before the first world war. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z Indeed, the now classic spread may have failed into obscurity as "Parwill" if not for a very clever advertising campaign in the second world war. A rose in every cheek: 100 years of Vegemite, the wartime spread that became an Aussie icon 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The film centres on a group of allied PoWs who are interned in a German prison camp during the second world war. Vinnie Jones keen for David Beckham to slip into Bobby Moore's shoes for an Escape to Victory remake 2010-03-23T11:51:00Z Menzel won an Academy Award for the best foreign language film with Closely Watched Trains, a second world war drama, in 1967. Jiri Menzel, Oscar-winning Czech film director, dies at 82 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Exports soared even during the second world war – with the rest of Europe in turmoil, the temporal reliability of neutral Switzerland assumed even greater significance. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It was followed by 2009's The Making of Modern Britain, also on BBC2, about the period between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the second world war. Andrew Marr to take on History of the World for BBC 2010-11-22T15:04:00Z He had been in the RAF in Burma during the second world war. Small Island by Andrea Levy 2011-01-22T00:06:13Z In fact, Soviet women were allowed a more active role in combat than the women of any other nation during the second world war, and took it up with gusto. Cross of Iron: gritty story of the German retreat from the Soviet Union 2013-04-18T07:59:49Z Regeneration is the first of a trilogy of novels set during the first world war. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-06-29T10:01:35Z After the second world war she ran "concert parties", essentially variety shows, some of which, at the Gaumont cinema in Wood Green, featured the young Barry Took. Pat Ashton obituary 2013-06-23T17:44:54Z The prime minister went to the Imperial War Museum and outlined government plans for the national centenary commemorations of the first world war. First world war: learning the right lessons from history 2012-10-11T21:43:43Z Born in south London in 1920, O'Donnell started writing for children's comics at the age of 17 but the second world war interrupted his writing career. Modesty Blaise creator Peter O'Donnell dies aged 90 2010-05-05T11:26:00Z It tells the life of a Kansas City housewife between the two world wars as she dutifully meets her social obligations, ministers to her husband, and raises her three children. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z Photograph: Hulton Getty I never seem to tire of documentaries about the second world war, no matter how often I see the same grainy, black and white footage. TV review: Hitler's Children; Lewis 2012-05-23T21:00:02Z It's not just the plot: a series of crimes – some ascribable, most anonymous – rumple the surface of a small town in northern Germany on the eve of the first world war. The White Ribbon: No 9 2010-10-20T10:46:00Z Initially uninterested in his plight, she grew curious on finding his diary from the end of the second world war, when he was part of the British occupying force in Palestine. Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z Thirty years after the end of the second world war. Serge Gainsbourg's 20 most scandalous moments 2011-02-28T12:10:13Z Scott, who was born during the second world war, suggested that countries, the UK in particular, should reintroduce rationing because “people are buying so much food and then the food is rotting”. Ridley Scott on coronavirus: Trump is a 'nutcase' 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Then there was his bloodlust as he sought Italian participation in the first world war, with fiery nationalist speeches and sub-Nietzschean fantasies, arguing a race only won respect by spilling the blood of its young. The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-04T07:00:01Z On its face, his oeuvre appears remarkably apolitical, especially considering that he lived through two world wars and a murderous civil war in his homeland, Spain. Art Review: ‘Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape,’ at National Gallery 2012-08-02T19:39:06Z Beresford served as a radio operator in the Women's Royal Naval Service in the second world war and began her freelance writing career soon after training as a journalist and becoming a radio reporter. Elisabeth Beresford obituary 2010-12-26T17:08:28Z Born Reti Janos in Budapest, as a child partisan in the second world war he saw his grandmother shot in front of him. John Rety obituary 2010-03-18T18:22:00Z During the second world war, Challis served as a cameraman with the RAF film unit. Christopher Challis 2012-06-08T15:34:25Z After the first world war, scare stories no longer sufficed. Backwards and forwards 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z His mother His friend's mother The local postmistress His teacher Robert Wilson's second world war thriller The Company of Strangers features an English mathematician and spy called Andrea Aspinall. Women spies 2010-07-07T12:09:00Z It wasn't until 1929 that a novel appeared that made imaginative sense of the first world war. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z The event took place through both world wars and the Great Depression, when tough finances prompted it to become a mostly volunteer-run event. Cheyenne Frontier Days, world's largest outdoor rodeo, canceled for 1st time in over a century 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The fathomless horror of the first world war is remembered by the compact Cenotaph, but also by the aggregate of many cemeteries and monuments across Europe. Ground Zero 9/11 memorial flows with mournful splendour 2011-08-15T09:48:17Z Waugh came up with this novel partly in response to a dismal experience as a soldier in the second world war. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z Prodigiously gifted as both musician and mathematician, Babbitt taught mathematics at Princeton during the latter part of the second world war, when the faculty was depleted. Milton Babbitt obituary 2011-01-30T18:29:19Z The modern daily self-shave became common much earlier, when America entered the first world war. Hair-erasing 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z You will be amazed how many hidden palaces and churches lie among the remains of dilapidated buildings left to decay since being bombed in the second world war. A local’s guide to Palermo, Sicily: 10 top tips 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But, back in New York after the second world war, neither Lee nor his wife was able to earn a living in the arts. Lee Stork obituary 2010-05-14T17:38:00Z “I think it’s the challenge of taking a can off the shelf – this strange food from the second world war – and doing something spectacular.” ‘It's flavourful as hell’: welcome to Hawaii’s annual Spam festival 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Harvey, who is 65, was born in Colchester just after the second world war. The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax 2013-07-10T16:35:00Z It starts in 1966 just after England won the World Cup in the final against West Germany and it goes back to the second world war. Little Manfred by Michael Morpurgo - review 2011-07-28T08:00:00Z But rather than agitating, Harvey concentrates on bearing witness to armed conflict, from the Gallipoli slaughter of the first world war to the present day. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake ? review 2011-02-13T00:15:33Z It was set during and after the second world war and it featured the elements that typified her later work: life in small-town Ireland, family relationships, humour, and gripping plots. Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish writer, dies aged 72 2012-07-30T23:18:52Z Workers use ropes to guide the wreckage of a second world war Dornier 17 aircraft as it is lifted on to a salavage vessel. German second world war Dornier 17 bomber lifted from the Channel 2013-06-10T18:45:51Z Late one night, we caught Zero Hour! – a 1957 film about a former world war two pilot landing a stricken passenger flight – and thought: “Why don’t we recreate this whole movie instead?” How We Made: Airplane! 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z The show, Women War Artists, explores the experiences and achievements of female artists from the first world war up to the present day. Female war artists celebrated in Imperial War Museum's new show 2011-04-07T16:55:46Z Looming in the future was Germany’s own experience with totalitarianism: the emergence in the early 1930s of a predatory police state that initiated the Holocaust and a world war, more cataclysmic than the first. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z She then went to WEA college in Birmingham, where she met James at the start of the second world war. Joyce Robertson obituary 2013-05-19T11:56:05Z Instead, it was the next generation of drama, about the second world war, for example Band of Brothers, that would make the biggest impression. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z In these extraordinary moments, Essential Killing looks a like a forgotten chapter from the end of the second world war. Essential Killing ? review 2011-03-31T21:51:00Z Aerial warfare at the start of the first world war was very different from what goes on over Afghanistan these days. When Romeo Met Juliet and Fighting the Red Baron 2010-06-04T21:15:00Z This response was seen during both world wars, the Depression and in the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession of the late 2000s. Yes, it’s January. But if you want a robust spring garden, start your seed-shopping now. 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z In 2014, Germany will remember the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the second world war, and the 70th anniversary of the 20 July 1944 bomb plot that tried to kill Hitler. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z But with the world wars of the last century, and the Trujillo dictatorship centralizing control in the capital, Monte Cristi declined. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z We didn’t need to train them that much because the level of training in the second world war was not like it is now. The best battle scenes ever shot from Apocalypse Now to Hacksaw Ridge 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Harry lives in the North East of England during the second world war. Sophie McKenzie's top 10 teen thrillers 2012-11-21T10:33:58Z Lady Mary lost her husband shortly after the first world war, when to be a young widow was at least nothing out of the ordinary. Michelle Dockery: 'I consider myself a widow' 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z The road to modern cryptography leads through the stupendous brain of William F. Friedman, chief cryptologist for the American military in both world wars and a primary focus of the exhibition. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Her father was a judge who later took part in the trials at Nuremberg after the second world war. Martha Hyer obituary 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Captain America values safety, having fought for it in both world war two and the present day, believing that the new legislation will hinder his fellow heroes’ efforts to help people. Captain America: Civil War – conflicted heroes and a clash of philosophies 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Most stirring of all, though, are the pictures she did during the second world war under the auspices of the WAAC. Laura Knight: Portraits – review 2013-07-13T23:05:27Z She trained as a teacher at Arkansas State College and worked as a riveter in Chicago during the second world war. Ellen Stewart obituary 2011-01-26T18:02:52Z The second world war changed British comedy and continues to haunt it today. Radio: Esther Waters, a gripping play about a Victorian girl's fight for survival 2013-03-09T06:00:06Z After air force service during the second world war he worked on British cinema classics including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and David Lean's 1948 version of Oliver Twist. Yoda's maker dies 2013-02-07T06:25:00Z In the years immediately following the end of the second world war, the British public refused to return to the desperately unequal past. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z The contest between these two philosophies happened over two world wars and two postwar peaces. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z That was it, the start of world war three. 'It's always high drama. It's somebody's life at stake': inside British rape trials 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Based on the meticulously researched novel of the same name by Herman Wouk, The Winds of War is a depiction of events from 1939 leading up to America's entry into the second world war. Six to watch: US miniseries 2012-08-06T09:57:28Z My father was a Pole who decided to remain in the UK after the end of the second world war. 'She'll never realise the impact she had': life-changing conversations 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z That was the fear of intelligence chiefs at MI5 during the second world war who were so concerned that they decided to investigate her contacts. Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 over Bletchley Park mystery 2013-02-04T07:00:10Z I found her old ration book and letters from her sweetheart, who died in the first world war, under the floorboards. Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Updating the opera to the close of the second world war, he sets it in a baroque palace used as a war room and meeting place for allied officers. Medea – review 2013-02-17T17:10:39Z That's why you have an overabundance of zombies and walking dead, and world war and asteroids from space. Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z Soon after the second world war they divorced, but although Hayden and his brother had to iron their own shorts, there was a maid and life was comfortable. Hayden Griffin obituary 2013-04-01T15:43:35Z After second world war service with the Royal Engineers and the Indian army, Cox completed his training at the AA. Oliver Cox obituary 2010-06-02T17:49:00Z In the decades that followed the second world war, constraints were imposed on Britain's powerful interests, including higher taxes and the regulation of private business. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z It was adopted by southern fraternities and soldiers from the south used it during the second world war. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z I stress, this is not simply a retread of the grotesque notion that the first world war was won "on the playing fields of Eton". 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The designer and his team evoked the decadent, opulent world depicted in Evelyn Waugh's novel about the aristocratic Marchmain family's decline between the two world wars. Peter Phillips obituary 2011-02-21T19:02:18Z It’s a peculiarly hermetic watch – the first world war, for instance, goes unmentioned. Meryl Streep's equal opportunities plea virtually ignored by Congress 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z “It used to be that gun violence was at least grounded in extreme life experiences – the second world war or the western,” says Steven Gaydos, executive editor of Variety magazine. Will Hollywood ever end its love affair with guns? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z She was a French courtesan whom Edward visited during the first world war, a money-grabbing social climber who traded her charms for position. The Wright Way; Edward VIII's Murderous Mistress; Keeping Britain Alive: A Day in the NHS – TV review 2013-04-24T06:00:10Z But the century truly began in August 1914, when Germany launched its invasion of Belgium – forcing England into the first world war. Toby Litt: My grandmother was a war reporter at 14 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z It concerns a weekend in which the two royals were allowed out of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the end of the second world war alongside the rest of the country in 1945. Dakota Fanning to play Princess Margaret in Girls' Night Out 2011-02-10T12:11:15Z How a multinational Muslim empire was destroyed by the first world war, by a historian of the 20th century who is director of the Middle East Centre at Oxford University. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Elder had put together works by Schreker, Elgar and Richard Strauss, all composed during or immediately after the first world war, and only one of them a regular repertory work. Northern Sinfonia/Elder ? review 2010-12-20T21:45:00Z Pat Barker writing about the first world war and men's experiences. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z Sporadic efforts to create a national cinema were interrupted by the allied occupation of neutral Iran during the second world war. How Iran's 'filmfarsi' remains the biggest secret in cinema history 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Hinton points out that the word “endurance” has a particular connotation in Japanese culture, akin to “stiff upper lip”, with roots in the resilience required for post-second world war reconstruction. ‘So alien! So other!’: how western TV gets Japanese culture wrong 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The third and final volume of Ms Cook’s life of Eleanor Roosevelt is concerned mainly with the second world war years. Ahead of her time 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z During the second world war she joined the Women's Royal Naval Service. Margaret Cole obituary 2011-01-03T18:04:59Z And while most first world war films are slow-burns of claustrophobia and paralysis, this is queasily kinetic: a horrifying rollercoaster taking you on a nightmarish heist. 'The stupidest thing humanity ever did to itself': Sam Mendes and Colin Firth on 1917 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Set in Berlin during the final hours of the second world war, it follows five couples whose experiences are quite disparate as the focus turns to unseen lives trapped in the chaos. This week's new theatre 2013-01-26T06:00:15Z A few films later, he was promoted to first assistant camera operator before being called up to serve in the Royal Navy during the second world war. Alan Hume obituary 2010-08-17T17:14:00Z Despite a raging world war, in 1944, my mother was sent to finishing school in Königsberg, until that August when she escaped Britain's fiery bombing of the city under a wet blanket. My grandfather was a Nazi. Our family's story of complicity shows where the road to extremism leads 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z His politics also extended into the wider world and he joined the marines in the second world war to fight the rising tide of fascism. Woody Guthrie: a century of protest 2012-07-13T21:54:03Z The show traces the life of Fleming, from his days as a young private in Britain’s Royal Army Medical Corps who later became a medical doctor, through two world wars and his famous discovery. In a Musical About Penicillin’s Inventor, Superbugs Take Center Stage 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z When PG Wodehouse was interned by the Nazis at the beginning of the second world war, he took just one book: the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z Williams served in both world wars, and became a media sensation during the Japanese occupation of Myanmar, then known as Burma, when his company of elephants helped build bridges and evacuate refugees. ‘Elephant Company,’ by Vicki Constantine Croke 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He retakes the spotlight, briefly, at the show’s halfway point, an airy gallery of Cubist painting between the world wars. Art Review | 'Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris': Picasso and Peers at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z After six years away, Studio Ghibli great Hayao Miyazaki returns with The Wind Rises, an animated film about the creation of the Zero Fighter plane used by the Japanese in the second world war. Populist: Items of interest this week 2013-06-29T04:59:01Z Don’t miss Jacob Lawrence’s striking Migration Series: the story of African-Americans’ journey north in the wake of the first and second world wars, told through 60 tempera panels painted in vivid blocks of colour. 10 of the best ways to enjoy New York … on a budget 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Twentieth Century Fox offshoot Fox Searchlight announced plans for Tolkien, which is set to focus on the writer's academic career and experiences during the first world war, in November. Theological JRR Tolkein biopic secures Expendables 2 director 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z I just hope people realise that nine years after Mosley started making these speeches there was a world war. 'Brad Pitt came calling': how Peaky Blinders became A-list gold 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Dad owned a little saloon, which he sold to build ships during the second world war. Larry King: my family values 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z In the turbulent years between the two world wars, the protest and poetry of the Surrealist movement resonated with Czech artists. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Market Surges for Works by 20th-Century Prague Artists 2011-03-03T12:23:45Z This new production is directed by David Grindley – who was assistant director on the original, and was also responsible for the award-winning production of RC Sherriff's first world war play Journey's End. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-09-28T23:06:25Z My daughter is 13, and her introduction to the second world war has to start soon. Good fellows: Martin Scorsese and Colonel Blimp 2012-10-28T13:00:01Z Not a year passes without at least one worthwhile book on each of the world wars, and 2012 didn't disappoint. Christmas gifts 2012: the best history books 2012-11-29T09:00:04Z It was only in hindsight, after a world war and the dark years of Communism, that he really was able to write what he felt about that swath of civilization. Q&A: Reflecting on a Writer’s Walk Through Europe 2014-03-21T16:44:21Z As the world slid from world war into Cold War, Sonya found herself no longer spying on Nazis but on the West, and the noose began to tighten around her. The Housewife Who Was a Spy 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z JRR Tolkien crafted a mythology for the modern world from ancient teutonic sources, a mythology that expressed many people's deep fears about industrialisation and world war. George RR Martin's fantasy is not far from reality 2011-07-26T11:52:51Z But the Proms took the second world war rather more seriously. Proms online 2010-07-06T21:31:00Z The second world war interrupted his training at the West of England College of Art in his native Bristol. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z It's inspired by the role of the merchant navy in the second world war, Moore says, "told from the point of view of the men who were there". Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-05T17:06:24Z Campaigners say the planned redevelopment, formally approved by Lewisham council in September, will destroy a key piece of history from the aftermath of the second world war. Largest postwar prefab estate to be demolished 2011-01-02T18:39:33Z But he was also a cipher operator in the second world war: his crises of "species survival" are never innocent, always freighted with questions and ambiguity. John Wyndham: The unread bestseller 2010-12-20T16:12:31Z These include HMS Caroline, the last surviving first world war ship, a rare collection of work by second world war codebreaker Alan Turing and HMS Alliance, the last surviving submarine of the second world war. German bomber to rise from its English Channel grave 2013-05-03T08:35:50Z I’m talking the level of the Japanese in the second world war… I’m talking of hundreds of thousands in camps or deported. Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Who realises that the most enduring success of the second world war lies in establishing Coca-Cola as a global brand? Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z Japanese cinema was unknown until Rashomon took a major prize at Venice in 1951 and helped heal the wounds created by the second world war. How Hitchcock's Vertigo eventually topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll 2012-08-04T23:05:44Z Our understanding of the first world war has been shaped by these two men and their poetry. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-24T21:55:08Z During the second world war a lonely American kid has an imaginary friend: Adolf Hitler. The most anticipated films of 2019: 21-30 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z In most respects he was a stereotypical late-Romantic Danish composer, yet one who, during the years of the first world war, happened to compose this totally singular piece. Langgaard: Music of?the Spheres; The Time of the End; From the Abyss 2010-08-05T21:30:00Z It was the first paper to notice his work in 1912, and on two occasions before the second world war even asked him to become its art critic. LS Lowry at Tate Britain: glimpses of a world beyond 2013-06-24T17:26:28Z It's a wonderfully gothic, "Turn of the Screw"-ish tale of suspense, set in a creaky old house in England just after the second world war. Books to movies -- but why? 2010-05-11T16:18:00Z An over-the-top melodrama, it covered the second world war and its aftermath in three hours. Charles Jarrott obituary 2011-03-06T18:49:41Z Second comes a series of high camp letters written by Robert Frobisher to his lover Rufus Sixsmith shortly after the first world war. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-11T13:22:00Z All of which makes her new acting project somewhat surprising: Flare Path, a little-known drama set in the second world war, and written by that chronicler of buttoned-up Englishness, Terence Rattigan. Sienna Miller: 'I've bought my freedom' 2011-03-08T21:30:01Z Strzeminski was missing an arm and a leg—he was wounded in the first world war—and also emotionally crippled. Man of the moment 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But as she wends through a giddy but uneasy Paris between the two world wars, our Tamara has the dramatic benefit of a bad conscience. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Horses against explosives, men against metal and chemicals, the lament was sounded again as the world was torn to pieces in the trenches of the first world war. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z It’s a sweeping yarn that spans two world wars, traveling from dark alleyways in Petrograd to frozen lakes in Siberia; from the summer estate of the Romanovs to grim Karaganda Prison. ‘Red Icon’ review: A new Inspector Pekkala thriller, by Sam Eastland 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Soon after the first world war, when my mother was in her teens, her younger brother Jack invited some friends to tea and asked her to bake rock cakes for them. Family life 2013-01-12T08:15:01Z A forest of iron helmets hangs upside down in the antechamber of Yoko Ono's Serpentine Gallery retrospective, conjuring the dead of two world wars. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z It could mean tribal civil conflicts that metastasized into world war. It’s been a bleak year, so our gift to you is George Clooney’s thoughts on movies, murder hornets and mince pie 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Germany before the first world war was a torn country: its constitution offered equal suffrage to every male over 25, which made it one of the most liberal electoral systems in the world. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z This peculiarity that we are now experiencing, the nearest thing to a world war, is the key theme in many of Shakespeare’s plays and Jacobean dramas, of old ballads, apocalyptic paintings and morality tales. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Outside, the United States was upended by massive cultural shifts: the Great Depression catapulting into the second world war; the civil rights protests and Haight-Ashbury fever sweating out its fury into disco decadence. That Summer: the story behind the 'other' Grey Gardens documentary 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z He said his earliest memory was seeing a Zeppelin aircraft shot down over Potters Bar during the first world war. Geoffrey Wright obituary 2010-12-07T18:28:00Z It spans Asia's steady disillusionment with western modernity through two world wars, then ends with the rise of China, India and global Islam, and the much-rumoured decline of the west. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z The arts are arguably the fastest-growing sector since the second world war. 'The arts cuts are madness' 2011-01-09T00:05:28Z And his 2007 feature Katyń, about the gruesome second world war massacre covered up the Soviets, is arguably his towering achievement. A short history of Polish cinema 2011-04-06T13:41:35Z During the second world war, when there was strict rationing, sweet things, including cakes, were uncommon. Family life: Our special 'monstrous' cushions, Right Said Fred, and Mother's dirt cakes 2013-03-30T07:15:01Z Meanwhile, the reputation of Gustav Klimt is forever scarred by the destruction of some of his most serious works at the end of the second world war. Lost art comes back to haunt us 2012-06-06T12:10:18Z They all but accused the film of starting world war two and kidnapping the Lindbergh baby. Cannes and Hollywood: a feisty marriage 2013-05-14T08:00:03Z And the artistic ferment of pre- and post-first world war France made itself felt cinematically, with an amazing outpouring of avant-garde short films. A short history of French cinema 2011-03-22T12:27:30Z Another method of disguising pile-ups is to shelter the welter of material under a convenient anniversary, but the next second world war nostalgia-point is the 75th anniversary of the beginning, in 2014. TV matters: The BBC's Hitler season 2011-08-24T20:30:01Z For Mr. Menasse, a wiry, thoughtful man of 63, the European Union remains a remarkable response to the horrors of the two world wars and the incessant rivalries among Europe’s larger powers. Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Photograph: Allstar Just before the first world war, a penniless pencil-sharpener salesman from Chicago had one of those eureka moments that occasionally illuminate the Anglo-American literary landscape. Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z Actor Bill Paterson's play Astonishing Archie, about two brothers living through the second world war, is on lunchtimes at Oran Mor. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-16T12:18:25Z The resurrection of the festival after the second world war was by no means automatic. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z Fuchs, however, turns the work into a parable of US dominance in the aftermath of the second world war. Saul ? review 2011-07-11T15:14:09Z It was the experience of living through the second world war, he says, that brought them closer together – as well as their love of film. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: 'For us it was cinema or death' 2013-03-01T08:00:05Z In the second world war, when other stars enlisted, Wayne’s studio asked for repeated deferments and he demurred. A man in full 2014-04-16T04:00:00Z During the second world war, the Bells and Grant heard virtually nothing of Picasso, but finally, in 1947, Clive Bell crossed the Channel and made contact. Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z After the second world war, when the district was part of Soviet-occupied East Berlin, it became a popular dumping ground and fell into disrepair by the time it was inherited by a Czech organisation. The cabaret theatre in Berlin found under 30 tonnes of rubbish 2012-11-23T15:54:03Z This diary entry, written in the trenches in the last year of the first world war by the central character of Birdsong, Stephen Wraysford, reads like the novel's own acknowledgment of the challenge it faces. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-22T21:55:12Z She was a foreign correspondent in Ethiopia and China and during the second world war she was interned in a Japanese camp in the Philippines where she became ill. Top 10 inspiring female adventurers 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Turner is here, as are the 20th-century neo romantics, such as Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, who adapted Turner's back-to-nature passions to a time overshadowed by the horrors of the first world war. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z His 1931 painting “Angel’s Flight,” showing a scene looking down from the top of Bunker Hill, sums up like few other artworks the dense urban landscape of Los Angeles between the world wars. Marciano Art Foundation architecture loses some of its eccentric personality in stylish redesign 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Comedian Joy Behar, a co-host of "The View" who also has veterans in her family, wondered if America's democracy, which was fervently defended in past world wars, was now at risk. Meghan McCain slams Putin summit: Trump “acted like a pathetic puppy who was completely neutere... 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Besides the Oscar-winning 2010 film The King’s Speech, which depicted King George VI battling his stutter to address his countrymen in the second world war, most depictions of stuttering tend toward jokes or derision. 'We know exactly what we want to say': inside a film that normalizes stuttering 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z My parents were born in the first world war and went through the Depression and the second world war, and their lives only started to ease up in the 60s. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z The site being excavated was to conform to his dreams of a pacifist, matriarchal, free-spirited civilization, nothing like the Europe outside tumbling into world war. Remaking Ancient Greece, With Paints or Pixels 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z He joined Manchester City in 1949, only four years after the end of the second world war. From Nazi to football hero: the incredible story of Man City's Bert Trautmann 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was proven right as the sumptuous ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon king was uncovered. "The Dig" on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal — according to an archaeologist 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z And there are a lot of good things that have happened in Europe since the second world war. Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It is right that Britain commemorates the first world war. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z After the second world war, the Christian Democrats took control of the city government and Venice seemed to fall asleep. Travails of a modern city 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Just as his father had felt during the second world war? The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z A former barracks that once provided a bunk for a young soldier called Adolf Hitler, the Turkentor was bombed in the second world war, then all but demolished in the 1970s. Walter de Maria's all-seeing eye 2011-02-20T21:59:00Z So is the retirement of Samuel, or Viscount Bearsted as he became, who helped persuade Winston Churchill to commission oil-burning dreadnoughts just before the first world war. Guts, greed and gushers 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z President Heller is the target of the drone-wielding terrorist, and his death “on foreign soil,” we’re told a few times, would lead inexorably to a world war. '24': Drones On 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The flow included the second world war, when she did hardly anything creative, but worked in a pacifist farming community practising organic agriculture. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z I was more moved by this meditation on poetry and second world war bombers than by almost any other entrant, but there were times when it drove me into a fury. Red pen blues 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z In this context, I often recall the use of the first world war in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Stranger fiction 2011-08-01T11:53:49Z After serving as a navy cook in the Pacific theatre during the second world war, he studied journalism at college before dropping out to attend acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1949. Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z His father, James, was badly injured in the first world war. Charles Durning obituary 2012-12-25T15:24:51Z An unashamed communist who had served honorably in the second world war and played an active role in movie politics afterwards, he was one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Hanks delivers a classic axiom in this Penny Marshall gem, about the foundation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the second world war. The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z References to war abound, whether it’s Korea, Vietnam, the second world war, or even the current war between crime kingpins. Fargo's all-star second season delivers a bravura study of America in the 1970s 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The two first met during the second world war, when Michael was a pupil of the composer at Morley College, near Waterloo station, in central London. Michael Tillett obituary 2010-03-17T18:32:00Z But his relationship with his father – a second world war veteran and advertising executive – casts a long shadow. Peter Gallagher: 'One of the most toxic things in the world is success' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z In three series broadcast over 20 years, the impact of Depression, the second world war, the social upheaval of the 60s and German reunification on the daily lives of the villagers is laid bare. Imported gems 2010-04-20T12:59:00Z This first of three episodes focused on what the American Dream meant after the second world war. TV review: Any Human Heart, American Dream and JFK: The Making of Modern Politics 2010-11-22T07:59:00Z The second big change came with the mass slaughter of the first world war, when many sought refuge from grief in the idea of the glorious dead living on. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-06T00:06:53Z The Pacific, the latest second world war collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Your next box set: The Pacific 2011-08-04T20:59:01Z A historian at Yale University has made a detailed study of where Jews were in most danger during the second world war. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Not to mention the fact this vast contemporary modern art collection is housed in an imposing second world war bunker. 10 of the best galleries in Berlin 2011-08-17T10:05:28Z Revived again after the second world war, in the 1970s the FKK movement attracted its largest number of followers. The naked truth: is naturism dying out in Germany? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z George Gershwin immediately bought one when he played the 1934 prototype, and the portability of the instrument made it popular with travelling preachers, and in American military chapels during the second world war. 50 great moments in jazz: Jimmy Smith and the Hammond organ 2010-06-02T11:23:00Z He fought in the first world war and about three versions of him were in the second world war. Torchwood: Miracle Day - critical view from the US 2011-07-11T11:25:14Z Saito is the second world war commander of the Japanese jungle work camp and in charge of extending the Bangkok-Rangoon rail link across the Kwai using a labour force of conquered and humiliated British POWs. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z It is set during the bombing of Dresden in the second world war and follows an American prisoner of war who is held in a slaughterhouse. Charlie Kaufman to adapt Kurt Vonnegut? 2013-07-09T12:42:16Z This would be an immersion into post-Mahlerian Viennese expressionism between the world wars, with familiar and unfamiliar composer names popping up. Renée Fleming and Emerson String Quartet bring some obscure music to light at Disney Hall 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z M*A*S*H and Catch-22 were out-and-out anti war, except that the wars in question were Korea and the second world war, not Vietnam, the one directly at hand. Hanks and Spielberg pick their battles with The Pacific 2010-04-03T13:20:00Z This career was interrupted by the second world war, during which Freeborn trained as a fighter pilot before being diagnosed with Asian flu and haemophilia. Stuart Freeborn 2013-02-08T14:14:35Z The second world war threw European musical life into turmoil. A sonata in two movements 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Though he retracted his comments and eventually took Swiss citizenship, the British musical establishment never forgave him, and the UK public turned against him during the first world war. D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcriptions/D'Albert: Symphony in F major; Seejungfr?ulein 2010-04-08T22:35:00Z But those new voices – Imagists, Vorticists, Cubists – had been blown away by the first world war, and somehow he was still around. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z Was it because the last survivors of the first world war were dying then, reminding us to remember, and that there was money to spare in the boom years? London is now full of war memorials, but the oldest are still the best 2012-11-09T22:29:02Z On graduating in 1942, he served in the army during the second world war, fighting in China, Burma and India, and rose to the rank of sergeant. Len Lesser obituary 2011-02-20T18:00:45Z In the years after the second world war, film-makers acted in a cautious, evasive way. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z Bruce Willis has signed on for Chinese second world war epic The Bombing, according to Variety. Bruce Willis signs up for Chinese second world war epic 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Though the idea that something like that, or like a tank in the first world war, will work successfully right away is fiction. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z On the outbreak of the second world war, the Attenboroughs took two Jewish girls into their home, where they stayed for eight years. Richard Attenborough obituary 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z VinesYelverton, Devon • The first world war was labelled the war to end war. Letters: At the going down of the sun 2013-05-24T20:00:18Z Towards the end of the second world war, he was goaded by an interviewer on the relationship between art and politics. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z Seattle author Laskin tells a sweeping story that spans the great upheavals that affected Jews in the 20th century: American immigration, two world wars, the Holocaust and the founding of Israel. ‘The Family’ in paperback; a tribute to Russell Wilson 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Similar criticisms have been aimed at the government's proposals for the commemoration of the centenary of the first world war. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z Especially after the catastrophe of the first world war, the gradual improvement that most people expected would continue indefinitely appeared to be faltering. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z Tom Stoppard returns to BBC with Ford Madox Ford adaptation Playwright's five-part BBC2 version of the first world war story Parade's End will be his first projects for corporation since 1970s. The BBC's MR James adaptation could be the ghost at the Christmas feast 2010-12-24T10:52:42Z For instance, not long after the first world war ended, many people visited the battlefields to see the place where so many lives were lost. From Chernobyl to concentration camps: why the morbid fascination with places of death and disaster? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Zimmer will be working with Nolan again, however, on the forthcoming second world war epic Dunkirk. Batfleck begins: Ben Affleck 'has written his own Batman movie' 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The years after the second world war are generally held to have marked Woody's decline into ill health, but the archive suggests otherwise. Woody Guthrie: the return of a pariah 2012-07-12T20:30:00Z The truly revolutionary age of art was before the first world war, he wrote, when Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse remade art completely. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z He asks a Texas steer roper, played by Diaz, to pose as a woman whose grandfather liberated the painting at the end of the second world war. Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz accept Gambit 2011-02-02T14:52:31Z Sunset, the director’s second film, is set in Budapest just before the first world war. 'Best programme ever': Mike Leigh, Coens and Cuarón set for Venice film festival 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z First, the prime minister told the Commons that veterans of one of the second world war's most important missions will finally get medals. Daily Mail celebrates a double campaigning victory 2012-12-20T10:59:00Z Having made a splash in Manfred Karge’s stage play about a woman disguising herself as a man to get through the second world war, Swinton was a natural pick for the screen version. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It’s 1962 and the axis powers won the second world war by dropping an atom bomb on Washington DC. The Man in the High Castle: the Nazis win, but so do viewers 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Its attempt to chronicle the war is not an abstract project: this was not just a world war, it was also a local war. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Great War Opens in Meaux, France 2011-11-12T00:48:01Z The experience of being a child of the ruins in Germany after the second world war perhaps injected him with this sense, living as he did in the moral and physical collapse of a culture. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z This many people haven't rushed for the Swiss border since the second world war. When is a chair not a chair? 2010-04-19T12:12:00Z The 2006 series The Swastika and the Pentagon includes an image of a rainbow-hued Chinese dragon battling the sunny yellow silhouette of a second world war soldier. Artist of the week 82: Pavel Pepperstein 2010-04-08T10:17:00Z Its primary focus is the austerity years immediately following the second world war, when these carnivals travelling across Britain and the US delivered brief excursions into a world of grace, danger, colour and glamour. TV highlights 09/08/2011: The Sex Education Show 2011-08-08T22:00:00Z Suave art historian James Fox delivers another treatise on the British masters of the art world, this week exploring the cataclysmic effects of the second world war on the nation's collective psyche. TV highlights 25/07/2011: How Murdoch Ran Britain: Dispatches 2011-07-24T22:00:01Z As Ross acknowledges, this was a complicated, almost backward-looking event – an explosion of fin-de-siècle bad taste before the first world war swept those indulgences aside and ushered in a hard-edged austerity. USB Soundscapes: Eclectica – John Adams; The Rest is Noise: LPO/Jurowski; Britten Sinfonia – review 2013-01-27T00:08:04Z It is the largest such crisis since the aftermath of the second world war. Roosevelt’s failure 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The Yorkshire port was the most bombed city in the country after London in the second world war, suffering horrendous damage to its Georgian centre and buildings dating back to medieval times. Hull blitz photos mark 70th anniversary of city's destruction 2011-03-22T11:29:25Z Particularly revealing is Fussell's analysis of Graves's celebrated first world war memoir, Goodbye to All That. Paul Fussell, the critic who fought the cant of military sacrifice 2012-05-24T20:52:53Z Tom Hopkinson took over editorship in 1940 when Lorant left for America; his magazine is said to have played a major role in creating a sense of national identity during the second world war. Unsung hero of photography Thurston Hopkins turns 100 2013-04-12T14:56:00Z A budget was swiftly agreed, before Ellison "left us to it" to make the story of a troubled second world war veteran. Megan Ellison, the most powerful new force in Hollywood 2013-02-18T19:56:34Z Instead, they were along the lines of: "Why do you allow there to be kids who don't know what the second world war is?" Hail the beeb 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z Miles, a second world war veteran, has come to the west coast for a new life. Why Ford v Ferrari should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z War and Peace, The Naked and the Dead and the literature of the first world war. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z The premiere of his Second Symphony in 1911 was greeted with incomprehension, and his music took a more intimate, darker turn after the first world war, above all in his Cello Concerto. Beyond the Malverns: Elgar in the Amazon 2010-03-25T22:15:00Z Through his father he vividly resurrects his East Ewell, Surrey, neighbourhood, along with the struggles and aspirations of London's citizens, both during the second world war and after. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z The film, set in Morocco during the second world war, won three Academy Awards including best picture, best writing and best director for Michael Curtiz. Casablanca piano goes up for auction 2012-11-27T22:49:40Z As the first world war raged, the two diplomats proposed to carve up the Arab lands of the Ottoman empire. Tales of spring and winter 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Costing $12m and reputedly featuring 1,500 extras, the 30-minute scene has no equal as a realistic representation of the horrors of the second world war battlefield. From Game of Thrones to The Revenant: the best battle scenes of all time 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z But you can't really claim to take the first world war more seriously than those who lived through it. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z Synopsis: Set during the second world war, Code Name Verity follows two women - a pilot and an interrogator - as they become unlikely friends. Carnegie medal shortlist: your verdicts 2013-06-20T16:36:36Z That great indictment of first world war carnage, All Quiet on the Western Front, doesn't appear as a bestseller until 1929. The novelty value of Publishers Weekly's novel list 2013-02-26T15:00:00Z The fascist groupuscules that emerged after the first world war were initially of an extreme reactionary and antisemitic cast, but they also had taproots deep in the English countryside. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z The film also touches on Mallory's experiences in the first world war, where he fought at the Somme. George Mallory and Everest: did he get to the top? Film revisits 1920s climb 2010-08-27T15:47:00Z When soldiers wrote home from the first and second world wars they spared their loved ones the realities of the trenches. Nina Bawden's Carrie's War speaks a truth about the ripple effects of conflict 2012-08-24T16:30:00Z All the little pinprick injustices of middle school felt like drippy, cavernous, world war wounds. Science saved my life: Saturday’s march for science is personal, too 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Fleisher’s mother accompanied her son across the Atlantic, then found them a place to live in Manhattan when Schnabel decided to leave for New York amid the approaching world war in Europe. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Brian wrote the Gothic in his 40s, in the wake of the first world war and the collapse of his first marriage. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z This was written in the late 1940s, is set between the two world wars, and is about an impoverished yet happy and loving family living in a tumbledown castle. If you like books like these: historical fiction for teens 2013-05-14T08:00:00Z Morgan enrolled as an undergraduate at Glasgow University in 1937 but his studies were interrupted by the second world war, in which he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Middle East. Edwin Morgan obituary 2010-08-19T17:23:00Z Exhausted by world war, Britain lacked the stomach, money and will to fight. Long, long road 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Most Zionist movements in Palestine suspended their armed struggle at the start of the second world war, judging that Nazi Germany’s determination to annihilate the Jews was a far bigger threat. Making of a martyr 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z We've reached the second world war section and my eye is drawn to a pack of toilet roll. The Museum of Brands, Notting Hill, London 2012-09-28T21:45:02Z The piano arrived in Warsaw in 1850, where it survived two world wars. Chopin’s last piano gets its 19th-century features back 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Inequality across rich countries was high before the two world wars of the 20th century. Mind the gap 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The place is the western front of the first world war, in a section manned by the French army. Paths of Glory: No 7 2010-10-19T10:48:00Z She spent most of the second world war in Britain. Hanna Behrend obituary 2011-01-03T18:07:17Z Renamed Leningrad in 1924, the city fell under siege in the second world war and the Astoria served as a hospital. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z This room is Keith Melton’s homage to the machine age, the late-industrial-age period between the world wars that permeated art and design as Art Deco clung to its last vestige of aesthetic popularity. Mansion Of Secrets: An Espionage Expert's Outrageous Spy Lair 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z He studied physics at the University of California before enlisting in the military during the second world war, serving as an aerial photographer for the air force. Joseph Strick obituary 2010-06-17T18:02:00Z She taught English during the second world war, accompanying her class to Lincoln, where they were evacuated. Mabel Ferrett obituary 2011-02-17T17:55:11Z According to Boorman’s DVD commentary, Point Blank is about Marvin’s depraved and dehumanizing experiences in the second world war, with his character Walker attempting to reclaim his life. Burning desire: John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z When he died in 1937, the role of the British aristocracy was soon to change forever after the second world war. Portait of a neglected painter: Philip de L?szl?'s works to go on display 2010-03-23T15:44:00Z First came In Love and War, an account of Ernest Hemingway’s first world war love affair with an American nurse, which provided an early lead role for Sandra Bullock. Richard Attenborough – a career in clips 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Following a teenage bride during the second world war, it is more like a thoroughly researched, scrupulously authentic historical drama that happens to be animated. From Genocidal Organ to Your Name: Japanese anime‘s new golden age 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The other, a world premiere, is The Creator, a hallucinatory meditation on the second world war codebreaker and posthumously acclaimed artificial intelligence prophet Alan Turing, by the local duo Al and Al. This week's new film events 2012-06-15T23:05:16Z THE Spanish civil war, which began in 1936, three years before the second world war, was far more than a local scrap between reactionary Roman Catholic traditionalists and domestic left-wingers of multiple shades. The opening act 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z He sends letters to people on both sides of the Atlantic seeking artistic contributions to a magnum opus for the anti-movement that turned the senselessness of world war into something convulsive. A Plan to Spread Dada Worldwide, Revisited at MoMA 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Despite its subtitle, this book is not a of the second world war; far from being comprehensive, it contains, for example, almost nothing about the war at sea and concentrates largely on Hitler, "'our' monster". Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z This extraordinary creation was destroyed in the second world war. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z The year 2020 has been transformative for how society sees fatherhood, and could produce the most profound shift in caring responsibilities since the second world war, according to researchers, business leaders and campaigners. Pandemic could lead to profound shift in parenting roles, say experts 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The film perks up when sabre-wielding cossacks scythe into peaceful working-class demonstrators, and later, during the first world war, when Russian soldiers on their way to the front rebel against their officers. I've never seen ... Doctor Zhivago 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Pierson served in the army during the second world war, then went to Harvard, where he received a degree in cultural anthropology. Frank Pierson obituary 2012-07-26T15:28:43Z What we said: The first world war is one of the 20th century’s oldest, grimmest tales of futility and slaughter. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z A lengthy hiatus doesn’t appear to be in Malick’s schedule, either: he’s already on to his next movie, a first world war drama set in Austria. Song to Song: should Terrence Malick take a break? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z In a nutshell, this conversation suggests the arc of many first world war movies: naive young men eager to serve their countries and embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Before 1917: revisiting the greatest first world war movies 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z They were both raised in meagre surroundings during the second world war, with food in short supply and so, when they became parents, they went the other way. Our gigantic problem with portions: why are we all eating too much? 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Towards the end of the second world war, they found themselves being shunted around in cattle trucks by the Soviet army until they landed up in the coal-mining area of Silesia, where Witold was born. Witold Starecki obituary 2011-08-08T16:41:24Z But “The King and I” is a virtual world war of West versus East, all the more interesting in that, in some weirdly subdued way, the two leads might actually be in love. Is 'Hamilton' the top Broadway musical of all time? Not necessarily, this expert says 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z During the second world war Palestine was an essential military base, second only in importance to Egypt. The Promise: an exercise in British self-exculpation 2011-03-04T14:40:36Z For the past 18 months I’ve been working on a documentary about second world war veterans from the Philippines, racing against the clock to wrap before they all die without appropriate recognition. 'Over one hour everything was cancelled' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z ‘We’re going back to being on our own again! This is the spirit that fought two world wars!’ 'The stupidest thing humanity ever did to itself': Sam Mendes and Colin Firth on 1917 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z In James Dacre's profoundly moving production it strikes me as one of the best plays ever about the first world war: less stiflingly class-conscious, for instance, than RC Sherriff's Journey's End. The Accrington Pals – review 2013-01-22T12:14:09Z First world war, 1914-1918: British troops, thought to be in Belgium, passing a shell crater. First World War Centenary: Manchester Guardian urged caution when war broke in 1914 2013-06-11T16:32:00Z The threats facing democracy will be a central focus of Carnegie Hall’s coming season, the presenter announced on Tuesday, with a festival devoted to the flourishing cultural scene in Germany between the two world wars. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z And the presence of military institutions during both world wars played a significant role in the evolution of the city and its industries. Museum Review: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle 2012-12-29T01:25:41Z He was educated in the US as an engineer and an architect and then joined the US navy during the second world war. Bruce Graham obituary 2010-03-25T19:06:00Z To escape the chaos of France after the first world war, in 1920 Jacques emigrated to the US with his mother. Jacques Barzun obituary 2012-10-29T18:27:35Z As civil war grew into world war, the Surrealist outcry intensified. ‘Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s’ Review: Our Irrationality Laid Bare 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z After the second world war, Robert Brasillach, a collaborationist newspaper editor, was executed for “intellectual crimes”. Turning dark 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z In this film, the Nazis lose the second world war. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z This violin-cello-piano recital, though, goes a more idiosyncratic route, attempting to evoke Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the world wars. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in May 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He made it he made it through the second world war on those ships; he was he was doing his his bit that way. "All Creatures Great and Small" star on animals, slow-burn romance & what makes a Scottish Christmas 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z And the Bowl has been doing outside concerts for nearly a century — through world wars, terrorist attacks, earthquakes and wildfires — giving it an expertise almost unmatched across the country. The Hollywood Bowl Is Now on Plan C: Filling All 18,000 Seats 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Particularly since the second world war, Europe has opted for what Mr Baldwin calls “author’s rights”. A clash of two copyrights 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In 1925, MGM's The Big Parade launched a vogue for films about the Great War; 24 years later, Battleground did the same for movies of the second world war. MGM gets sucked into a black hole of debt 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z To the hard-liners of east and west the second world war was a distraction. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z "I guess that if I get killed in the first world war there's a chance this book will be remembered as a classic of lost childhood." Digested classic: Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier 2010-04-01T08:41:00Z Made on the cheap but usually in Technicolor, they provided second world war escapism, even for those whose husbands and sons were fighting Rommel in the western desert. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z There were Communists and Socialists, Stalinists and Trotskyites, all giving vent to their views in the years of the Spanish Civil War just before Hitler’s pact with Stalin paved the way to world war. Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91 2011-01-26T16:05:52Z Published in what was East Germany, War Primer used second world war photographs, mostly from Life magazine, and accompanied each one with a short rhyming epigram, by Brecht, as comment and counterpoint. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z Many societies formed before and after the second world war, when fewer women juggled careers with families, life was slower-paced, distractions fewer and interests simpler. US flower growers fear bloom is off the hobby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The 28 members that battled one another in two world wars now mostly find common ground. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation Capitalism 1.0, up to the end of the first world war, kept economics and democratic politics utterly separate. Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky 2010-07-24T23:25:00Z The danger of homegrown fascism was one that many English crime writers tackled in the year before the second world war started. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z Slim was born Otis Dewey Whitman in Tampa, Florida, and as a teenager was a promising baseball player, who returned to the game after service in the second world war. Slim Whitman dies aged 89 2013-06-19T15:18:34Z His primary focus is on the cohort born later in the 19th century who grew up to witness the existential threat to Paris in two world wars. Novel traces fates Paris families over centuries 2013-04-30T11:32:14Z Morpurgo's tale centres on a young Devon farmhand who braves the trenches of the first world war in an effort to find his beloved colt, Joey. Steven Spielberg takes the reins on War Horse 2010-05-04T10:36:00Z Freeman's scientific career was interrupted by the outbreak of the second world war, when he volunteered for the Royal Artillery. Paul Freeman obituary 2010-08-25T17:24:00Z The first world war was a dirty and complex bloodbath. Should the country spend £55m to commemorate the first world war? 2013-05-25T16:45:01Z But one connotation, as he knew, was the establishment by force of "people's democracies" in Eastern Europe after the second world war – in other words, Stalinist imperialism. Christopher Hitchens: from socialist to neocon 2013-01-18T13:01:01Z It says that aviator-shaped glasses – thin, steel or titanium frames, based on the shape worn by pilots during the second world war – are this season’s frame of choice. Goodbye, geek glasses: why aviators are this season’s biggest eyewear trend 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Moore served in the second world war after being selected for officer training in 1940 and completed postings in India and Sumatra. War veteran, 99, raises £5m for NHS by walking lengths of back garden 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The second world war demonstrated the astonishing power of America’s production machine. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z He had fought in the first world war, but it was a nightmarish experience he never referred to, beyond the occasional laconic comment. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z Many second world war veterans were accustomed to joking about Hitler. We've always found Hitler hilarious ? the alternative is much more odious 2011-08-27T23:06:06Z National events will mark the anniversaries of key dates of first world war. First world war centenary events will be 'respectful and useful' 2013-06-10T11:31:08Z After the second world war I was looking for a language that could express my experience in the concentration camp and in the forest. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z It was only 13 years after the end of the second world war and the crash meant a number of young men had died again. Our friend in the north 2010-06-18T23:03:00Z Her sickly father had never been out with a girl until he was 34 and met Parker's mother, a German girl who had been traumatised as a Luftwaffe nurse in the second world war. Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z She then gave the order some historical context, referring back to the way foreigners were treated at the time of the second world war. Late-night hosts skewer Trump over travel ban: 'embarrassing and inhuman' 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z We are sometime between the world wars, in a fanciful Europe of leisure and refinement. ‘Magic in the Moonlight’: Another Woody Allen Odd Couple 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Imitating the Dog stop off at West Yorkshire Playhouse with The Zero Hour, a story set in Berlin in the dying days of the second world war. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-08T15:48:00Z Rosemary was even presented to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during her father’s service as US ambassador at the time of the second world war. Emma Stone to play JFK's eldest sister in tale of enforced lobotomy 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Through rich, colorful allegories of the two world wars, the Russian Revolution and his experience as a Jew fleeing Nazi Europe, Chagall's paintings are presented as a witness account of the turbulent 20th century. Art witness: the 20th century according to Chagall 2013-02-19T16:37:08Z In this, he tells us about the mass squatting movements after the second world war, when thousands of homeless people and families took over abandoned military camps. Talking Green by Colin Ward - review 2012-11-20T13:42:01Z Joseph Roth's masterpiece, The Radetzky March, describes this world before the shock of the first world war, and the collapse of the multifarious society, with its rigid rules and habitual pleasures. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z Bury fought throughout the first world war, until captured in the spring offensive of 1918. My hero: Charles Howard Bury by Wade Davis 2012-11-23T22:55:03Z Born in Fort Worth and brought up in San Angelo, Texas, Parker served in the US navy during the second world war. Fess Parker obituary 2010-03-18T23:30:00Z Sallis is one of the last of a particular line of British actors for whom the bad luck of the second world war brought the compensation of being able to fulfill acting ambitions. Peter Sallis: veteran actor with charm, presence and an unmistakable voice 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z She has written a "book about the role women played during the first world war on the home front, sometimes doing dangerous or unusual jobs". Authors prepare to mark centenary of first world war with flood of new books 2013-06-09T08:30:02Z Fans of Quentin Tarantino have rushed to buy the movie whose name alone inspired his misspelled second world war fantasy Inglourious Basterds. Inglourious Basterds' inspiration gets glorious DVD reception 2010-04-09T12:22:00Z Before his death, Fitzgerald saw another world war at hand. This Week in Fiction: The Lost Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Wagner serves as a portentous soundtrack, as the journey reaches the end of the first world war, and the series braces itself for what followed – and the role art played in that. Tonight's TV highlights: Coronation Street 2010-12-06T00:05:00Z Subsequent books brought in all kinds of real and fictional characters, with Newman plunging his fangs into punk, the first world war, and supercool 50s Rome. Deathless prose: the vampire novel of the century 2012-02-10T11:25:52Z The ram led a herd of sheep that kept the grounds trimmed up in a show by Wilson to tighten his belt and free the White House gardeners to join the first world war effort. Willow Biden joins long and varied line of White House pets 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z And birdsong, with its first world war echoes, is finally used to provide a counterpoint to human turbulence. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z One early difficult experience, he says, was on Band of Brothers, Steven Spielberg’s second world war TV series. Dominic Cooper: Mamma Mia! is like family – but Band of Brothers almost ended my career 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Veteran actor Victor Rebengiuc leads Medal Of Honour, dredging up memories of the second world war, and also stars in the once-banned Sand Cliffs. This week's new film events 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z In Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, written a few years after the first world war, the nightmares are of human creation. Prom 50: BBCSO/Vänskä – review 2012-08-21T15:14:53Z The second world war, the war to end tyranny. Letters: At the going down of the sun 2013-05-24T20:00:18Z Christopher Nolan’s second world war epic Dunkirk followed with eight nominations, including best picture and director. Oscar nods pour in for The Shape of Water in year coloured by #MeToo 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The poem, which describes the chance encounter of four strangers in a New York bar one evening during the second world war, is held together by a compelling mixture of ritual and naturalistic detail. Poetry ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z But the first world war equivalent of Rosie the Riveter was not going to revert, submissively, to being the Angel in the House. The 1930s: ‘Women had the vote, but the old agitation went on’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z "We were enemies more than once in the last century and today we are friends and allies," the prince said, alluding to Germany and its cohorts in the first and second world wars. Lights to go out in parts of Britain on World War One centenary 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z This time he sends his family beyond the Atlantic to America, driven there by the troubles that came with the end of the first world war. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z Wood explains how the old order was swept away by two world wars, the crumbling of empire and the swift – and all things considered, mostly surprisingly unfussy – rebuilding of Britain as a post-industrial, multicultural nation. TV highlights 10/08/2012 2012-08-09T18:59:01Z The modern computer came of age during the second world war. Lookout 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It was last a relevant crop in the US during the second world war, when the Department of Agriculture made a Hemp for Victory film and encouraged production. The hemp revival: why marijuana's cousin could soon be big business 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The society is still receiving items from both world wars and even the Civil War. Historical societies across the U.S. are crowdsourcing pandemic time capsules 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Who knows that in 1918 the middle powers occupied vast areas in the east that almost equalled the territory occupied in the second world war? First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z William Golding’s novel describes a group of British schoolboys who crash-land on an island in the Pacific Ocean during a world war. Perspective | No, dudes, we don’t need your all-girl version of ‘Lord of the Flies’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z During the second world war, Dad was a lieutenant in the field artillery and earned a chestful of medals for his role in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. Burt Reynolds: my family values 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Unusual second world war movie taking no sides but challenging few ethnic cliches either, as it switches between German, Italian and US troops in Italy during the final stages of combat. This week's new films 2011-01-15T00:05:55Z Written in 1940 as the world war raged, “East Coker” recounts Eliot’s memories of the charming farming village and his family’s connection to it. ArtsBeat Blog: T.S. Eliot Devotees Angered by Plans to Develop East Coker 2011-08-15T22:13:09Z With the outbreak of the first world war, everything shifted. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z The second part of the show featured a tremendously affecting discussion about the complex realities of men returning home from the second world war. Jeremy Vine 2010-05-11T07:00:00Z More sophisticated methods of control began after the second world war when scientists in the US began using radiation as a means of controlling insects. Can GM mosquitoes rid the world of a major killer? 2012-07-14T23:05:51Z These narratives are interspersed with accounts of various wild-eyed visitors to the desert: a murderous Mormon miner in the 1870s; a shell-shocked ethnographer after the first world war. Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru ? review 2011-07-27T10:30:00Z The novel follows the Croatian protagonist Josip Lasta through the second world war and the wars of the 1990s to eventual redemption. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z Saving Private Ryan – released in 1998 and arguably the totemic ancestor of the wish-fulfilment second world war movie – concluded that the US army fought and won the war on its own. Why are we so obsessed with films about the second world war? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z After six years of exile in Scandinavia, Reich emigrated to America just before the outbreak of the second world war, where he translated much of his work for a new audience. Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929-1934 by Wilhelm Reich – review 2013-05-01T07:00:02Z His grievances are actually perfectly valid: how could resource-rich Wakanda stand by and let all these atrocities – slavery, colonialism, world wars, racism – happen to their African brothers and sisters? What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Wonder Woman, the world war one-set superhero tale that has so far been DC Comics’ only critical hit, came in at No 3. Women-fronted films are top three highest-grossing movies of 2017 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z And over the course of two world wars, talented directors and movie stars — mostly from Europe — poured into this country. Hollywood’s Diversity Problem and Undocumented Immigrants 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z They were in second world war tents, eating rations and everything. The best battle scenes ever shot from Apocalypse Now to Hacksaw Ridge 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z And it's about world war two, which brings memories of rationing. The King's Speech gets a royal reception 2011-01-14T19:21:22Z Did the novel not suggest that he might have suffered in the first world war? Book club: Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-15T21:55:13Z His father, Jack Roeg, came from an aristocratic Dutch background; he had been severely injured during the first world war and worked very little as a result. Nicolas Roeg obituary 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Something rare, euphoric and mad was recorded on celluloid: the Iranian way of life after the second world war, with all its paradoxes. How Iran's 'filmfarsi' remains the biggest secret in cinema history 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z At the same time, computers are able to place the sort of cryptography with which Bletchley Park struggled in the second world war into the hands of everyone—including criminals, foreign spies and terrorists. Lookout 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The original libretto documented history from the middle ages to the second world war through the eyes of women, via a cast of characters including witch-hunters, plague victims and war workers. The dark and brilliant world of Gaggle 2010-12-06T16:51:00Z It was from the grievances and hardship that followed the settling of that war, after all, that the seeds of the next world war grew. In Praise of Repertory Theater: Macbeth at the Matinee, Miller at Night 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The propaganda film that best captures what the second world war was about and expresses it in attractive characters whose style embodies their politics and morality. Casablanca ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:56Z To satirise the war then raging in Vietnam, Ring Lardner Jr's Oscar-winning script had to be set during the Korean war, with GIs spending their spare time watching movies about the second world war. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z That year was a particularly good one for sales following a world war and a flu epidemic. The Ouija board's mysterious origins: war, spirits, and a strange death 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The main attraction is to dive on the wrecks left over from the second world war. Greek island holiday guide: the Dodecanese 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z He now believes his dad was mentally ill, possibly as a result of fighting in India during the second world war. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z The Tokyo-born entertainer moved to New York after the second world war. Yoko Ono named Meltdown festival curator 2012-11-07T17:25:58Z A Greek man in his early 20s fights for his homeland as part of the Communist resistance at the end of the second world war. A guide to Iannis Xenakis's music 2013-04-23T16:57:59Z Walter Braunfels' music was popular in Germany in the 1920s and early 30s, and he played an important part in the reconstruction of German musical education after the second world war. Braunfels: Organ Concerto; Symphonic Variations etc – review 2012-11-22T21:47:01Z At the end of the second world war Japan was defeated and occupied by the United States. In the air 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The US won the second world war virtually single handedly, it liberated the Jews from the Nazis and is defeating Islamic terrorism in the same manner. Letters: Politics and propaganda on the screen 2013-01-18T21:00:13Z David Cameron launches Britain's first world war 100th anniversary commemorations at the Imperial War Museum. David Cameron announces £50m fund for first world war commemorations 2012-10-11T19:12:20Z And then my mum's dad is African-American and he was here in the second world war, a GI. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The first world war love story, Birdsong, stops off at Malvern Theatre. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-03-01T13:56:37Z This fact alone might alert visitors to see the greatest novelty of the cemeteries of the first world war: the vast lists of names that abide amid the graves. How to Read a Graveyard by Peter Stanford – review 2013-05-03T18:00:03Z April 6 marks the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the first world war, and PBS is recognizing that milestone with an in-depth look at some of the epic war’s hidden figures. We’ve been here before: Eerie parallels between World War I and present-day America 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z In a typical episode, Springer – a former mayor of Cincinnati who was born in Highgate tube station during a second world war German bombing raid – would play ringmaster to a tawdry parade of domestic disputes. How The Jerry Springer Show splashed around in humanity’s worst excesses 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z He opens with the formation of the security services in 1909, and recounts the intelligence failures and successes in two world wars. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z In the 1950s, when the city was recovering from the destruction of the second world war, locals began throwing beach festivals to draw visitors and spur the economy. Spaghetti in a cone: a miracle of physics, a genius food delivery system 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In the next iteration, she does; and she is liberated once more, to plunge on to lives made perhaps even more divergent by the schism of the second world war. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review 2013-03-06T08:01:01Z James also spoke about the "defining event" of his life – the death of his father who survived a second world war prison camp only to die on the journey back to Australia. Clive James tells BBC Radio 4 he is 'getting near the end' of his life 2012-06-21T11:32:15Z The Weiszes are dominated by their strict father, a man who specialises in tracking down furniture confiscated from Jews during the second world war. Great House by Nicole Krauss ? review 2011-02-19T00:05:23Z In a dystopian world nearly 40 years after the second world war, what remains of Earth has been split into three superpowers after an atomic war — Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z However, it was only after the second world war that the idea of sexual liberation would permeate the culture at large. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z The following year will see a very different centenary – of the first world war. Celebrating 1913, a glory year for modern art 2012-11-19T17:00:03Z The seven-minute footage is part of a first world war propaganda movie titled Zepped which Chaplin filmed in 1917 in an effort to help defuse the terror inspired by Zeppelin bombing raids over London. Rare Charlie Chaplin film found in junk shop 2011-07-11T10:58:37Z Was the Holocaust itself unimportant to Hitler, or was it simply ranked as less urgent compared with the demands of fighting a world war? Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z After the second world war companies started to swap downtown for the suburbs, establishing office parks like AT&T’s celebrated Bell Labs, a precursor of the “campuses” favoured in Silicon Valley today. Inside the box 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z It was during the Italian campaign that Allied troops endured the worst close-quarter fighting since the first world war. Stanley Kubrick was planning children's film before his death 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z These successes showed that he had the skills to bridge the gap between the genteel light music of the post-second world war years and the brash new pop of the 1960s. Johnny Pearson obituary 2011-04-06T17:52:35Z More importantly, Britain, which had been the linchpin of late 19th-century globalisation had been weakened by the first world war and was no longer able to provide the leadership role. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Churchill – an ally in two world wars and the cold war – has become something of a cultural touchstone for politicians on both sides of the aisle, especially conservative Republicans. Churchill 'in the year of Trump': Darkest Hour feeds America's love for Winston 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z The World At War The seriously epic second world war documentary. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z The story of its composition reflects one of the major historical events of the century: the second world war. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z The Pacific 9pm, Sky Movies Premiere As epic as TV gets, this intense new series tells the story of US marines fighting the Japanese in the second world war from Guadacanal to Okinawa. MasterChef | Channel 4's Comedy Gala | The Pacific | The Orphans Who Survived the Holocaust | Watch this 2010-04-05T05:45:00Z So millions of ordinary Joes, used to paying very little for their fix – five cents a throw when the second world war began – flaked away, along with the advertising. The norms of Norman Rockwell 2011-01-30T22:00:03Z Some 10 years ago I wrote my third story about the first world war, after War Horse and The Butterfly Lion. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z True, there were only 600 paid-up subscribers, but the system was extended free to London hospitals, where it remained in use during the first world war. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z It's set in a private girls' school before the first world war. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z Like her previous work, “Purge”, it features the history of Estonia at the moment when it was caught between Stalin’s hammer and Hitler’s anvil in the second world war. A singular voice 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It’s a familiar tale with refugee composers — particularly Jewish ones — who had enjoyed popularity between the world wars. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z This was a city still in the shadow of the first world war. A writers' weekend in 1920s Paris 2013-02-06T12:17:49Z It was a remarkable example of literary inspiration – a vindication, in fact, of the very notion of inspiration, a thing the world had come to doubt in the prosaic years after the first world war. Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe ? review 2011-07-29T22:00:40Z She is the widow of the son who is still listed missing presumed killed in the second world war. The heart-wrenching performance of Setsuko Hara, Ozu's quiet muse 2010-06-16T13:49:00Z After serving in the army during the second world war, he went on to summer stock and off-Broadway, rooming with fellow actor Charles Bronson as both looked for paying jobs. Quincy and The Odd Couple star Jack Klugman dies, aged 90 2012-12-25T09:23:50Z The movie opens with a scene of a young Nico watching her city, Berlin, burn at the end of the second world war. Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The concept of the English-speaking peoples would shape his thinking and speaking about foreign affairs through the second world war and the cold war. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z Preying on economic depression and collective fatigue after the first world war, these intellectuals finally succeeded in imbuing French society and its institutions with what he calls “unreason”. Turning dark 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z More suggestive evidence comes from a vast, unwitting and cruel experiment played out in the second world war. The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:09Z After the first world war, he mainly worked on building up his commercial photographic library – and in doing so buried his own reputation. National Portrait Gallery to put EO Hopp? back in the frame 2010-10-07T12:55:00Z The exchange matches the historical moment, since the film's audience was a generation of women newly empowered by work on the home front in the second world war. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z The first world war lies at the centre of the book, although it remains offstage as the narrative sweeps through the last century. Stranger fiction 2011-08-01T11:53:49Z Butterfield was then wafted up the academic ladder at a time when others had left for service in the second world war. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:05Z Set in Naples not long after the end of the second world war, the novel describes the friendship and tangled loves of an Englishwoman called Jenny and two native Neapolitans Gioconda and Gianni. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Shirley Hazzard 2010-04-23T08:00:00Z This novel about the first world war is set entirely in Britain. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-17T21:54:01Z Land of Marvels, set in Mesopotamia on the eve of the first world war, was published in 2009, to appreciative reviews. Barry Unsworth obituary 2012-06-08T17:14:33Z Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis The one good thing about Norman Stone's sequel to his brief history of the first world war is that it is short. World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone – review 2013-02-13T15:09:49Z Her latest book, Rose Under Fire, set towards the end of the second world war, also features a young heroine with plane-flying skills. Elizabeth Wein's top 10 dynamic duos in fiction 2013-06-20T12:33:58Z As it happens, of the three books, Now has the loosest connection to the second world war: unlike the first two, Once and Then, it takes place in contemporary Australia. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z During the second world war, Renee helps with the war effort in the skies, and now, as America enters the space race in the 1950s, she is determined to be the first female astronaut. The Astronaut's Chair – review 2012-09-28T10:48:18Z Advertisements for hair-removal products sprouted everywhere, and by the start of the second world war body hair had become disgusting to middle-class American women. Hair-erasing 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z He witnessed the fallout from two world wars, and contributed significantly to the upheavals that were Modernist art and culture. The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Seventeen Moments of Spring was broadcast at 7.30pm over 12 consecutive nights, and this black-and-white second world war spy drama amassed an astonishing 50 to 80 million viewers per episode. Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Another successful hero from the Marvel stable is Union Jack, who has undergone several iterations beginning with his inception as the British representative in the second world war superteam The Invaders. St George's Day launch for laughable comic superhero: Englishman 2013-04-23T11:59:52Z In the book, Allie, an inventor thoroughly sick of modern life and convinced the next world war is imminent, uproots his family from Massachusetts to Honduras, where he tries to create a self-styled utopia. Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z He was born in Tokyo shortly after the second world war, a time when poor provisions and facilities meant that many babies died. Eiji Kusuhara obituary 2010-05-27T17:58:00Z Some donors, Herlein said, shared their grandparents’ stories of fighting in the second world war: in 1944, Parisians greeted US soldiers on the square of Notre-Dame as the bells announced the capital’s liberation. Why have Americans given so much money to restore Notre-Dame? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z At every turn, their relationship is snagged by both personal and social thorns: it's a brilliant synthesis that illuminates the gaping fissures in the French class system wrought by the first world war and industrialisation. The Misunderstanding by Irène Némirovsky – review 2013-07-12T14:59:00Z Crosby was a captain in the second world war who encountered thousands of Cossack refugees stranded in northern Italy and was forced into an impossible dilemma as a result of their treatment by the Allies. Mouse and the Cossacks by Paul Wilson – review 2013-06-28T17:00:00Z In other words, they wanted the service to remain as it had been since 1918, when a chaplain called Eric Milner-White returned from the first world war and inaugurated the tradition. King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z Her husband has gone off to fight in the second world war, leaving her to deal with the children and what few servants they can afford. Nicole Kidman’s top 10 films - ranked! 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images Robert Redford today accused the US of losing its way in the years since the second world war. Robert Redford on America 2013-05-22T16:06:47Z And unlike the first world war, where you look back and think, actually that's messy, there's blood on our hands, with the second world war it's more clear cut. Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar 2011-02-24T22:15:03Z Let England Shake documents man's self-destructive propensity for war and Harvey spent two years researching warfare, in particular the first world war. Mercury revisited 2011-08-04T07:17:27Z Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/3azh8 No artist anywhere during the second world war revealed its destruction of lives and meanings as ruthlessly as Francis Bacon does here. Monstrous war: Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion 2012-10-02T13:41:50Z He was evacuated to Sussex during the second world war; one of his older brothers died while serving in the RAF. Bill Pertwee obituary 2013-05-27T16:13:38Z His first world war classic, Paths of Glory, is one of cinema’s most powerful anti-war movies, widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, as was his Roman epic, Spartacus, both of which starred Kirk Douglas. Lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay, Burning Secret, is found 60 years on 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z After serving in the army in the second world war, Klugman was able, under the GI bill, to enter Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he studied drama. Jack Klugman obituary 2012-12-25T12:14:42Z The second world war also disrupted shipping supply routes. A rose in every cheek: 100 years of Vegemite, the wartime spread that became an Aussie icon 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Too young to join the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the second world war, he signed up with the merchant navy. Iain Crawford obituary 2011-08-04T17:21:28Z Furthermore, this is a future in which the Nazis, after losing the second world war, escaped to the moon, whence they are now returning in flying saucers to conquer Earth. Iron Sky loses the Nazi plot on a cheap moon set 2012-05-24T14:18:38Z They might still be applauding, had all this not happened before the first world war, when the medium had yet to develop a sense of its own permanent value. The first Native American director. Or was he? 2010-09-23T22:50:00Z After the Napoleonic War and the two world wars, the victors tried to create an international order that would keep a lasting peace. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z During the second world war, mock housing and factory buildings were built of plywood on Turn Moss as decoys to distract German bombers from nearby factories. Great parks and green spaces in the UK: readers’ travel tips 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Next in the diary is Shadow in the Cloud, a drama in which she plays a second world war fighter pilot, directed by Roseanne Liang from a script by Max Landis. Chloë Grace Moretz: 'People said: You're going to lose your career over this' 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z And it wasn't that long since the second world war. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z My doubts concern the show itself, which, like the EL Doctorow novel on which it is based, offers a kaleidoscopic pageant of America in the decade before the first world war. Ragtime – review 2012-05-30T17:08:42Z It's now 66 years since her first hit single, Sentimental Journey, spent 23 weeks in the charts, becoming an unofficial anthem for soldiers returning from the second world war. Pass notes No 3,028: Doris Day 2011-08-16T19:30:00Z In the event, the harrowing first world war drama took three awards: for Roger Deakins’ cinematography and for its visual effects and sound mixing. Parasite makes Oscars history as first foreign language film to win best picture 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z My interest in the first world war went back to childhood and to a sense that there was something untold, something too awful for my elders to contemplate – even at a distance of 50 years. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-06T21:43:01Z I also like comic roles, although the trouble is if you get into the second world war drawer, no one will think of you as a funny person. Carice van Houten: ‘I feel like my back is straightening when I become Melisandre’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The international register includes the haunting filmed record of the first world war, The Battle of the Somme. Five more British silent films Unesco should register 2013-07-12T12:36:01Z A thought-provoking pairing of Zed Nelson's photography of the worldwide beauty and cosmetics industry with medical drawings by the Slade School lecturer, painter and first world war medical corps volunteer Henry Tonks. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-25T23:05:24Z Then, in the cunningly titled Blackadder Goes Forth, they settled in 1917 in the French trenches of the first world war. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Two world wars fed innovation by making efficiency and conservation pressing matters, creating food and housing shortages and luring women into the work force. Art Review: The Heart That Beats, Heats, Chills and Whips 2010-09-19T22:42:00Z He is also known for his social conscience, and the show includes lithographs he did for leftwing publications and a small room of paintings showing German atrocities in the first world war. Royal Academy stages retrospective of neglected US artist George Bellows 2013-03-12T17:46:09Z During the first world war, for example, he seemed keen to write music in keeping with the times: music that might provide some comfort to the uncertain and the grieving. Backstage no longer: Frank Bridge at the Proms 2011-08-04T21:30:01Z He was called to audition for a peach of a part, the role of the “Jew hunter” in Inglourious Basterds, a boisterous second world war epic directed by Quentin Tarantino. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z The first world war is still highly controversial. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z After the second world war, both Lina and her mother received certificates of appreciation from Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander for "faithfully and loyally" serving the allied cause. Lina Lalandi 2012-07-08T17:30:07Z Known for his second world war blockbuster The King’s Choice, Poppe based his film on in-depth interviews with survivors and others connected with those who died. Utøya massacre re-enactment stuns Berlin audiences 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z On paper, it’s similar to Christopher Nolan’s ambitious second world war saga Dunkirk, an action-heavy war film with an equally lofty budget from another acclaimed British director. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 4 – 1917 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Only decades after the mortician’s own premature death does the author learn of the horrors he witnessed during the second world war. Killer prose 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z As a 10-year-old in 1943 I found immensely comforting its clever device of using a flashback to suggest that the events took place several years before Britain emerged victorious from the second world war. Went the Day Well? 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z More than 20 years after she first began writing about the first world war, Barker's determined unsentimentality is still impressive. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Buried in an unmarked grave in 1897, he was reclaimed as a great Muslim patriot by Iranians and Afghans after the second world war. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z The network also offered unexpectedly fresh takes on the second world war and the abdication – two history-doc standbys – in The Churchills and Edward VIII: The Plot To Topple A King. Mark Lawson's TV review of the year 2012 2012-12-28T10:00:00Z When the second world war started, I asked my father, "Will our Les have to go?" Family life: Grandparents raising a glass, seeing my brothers again and Auntie Sue's gherkin soup 2013-07-13T06:15:00Z Later, he takes Diana shopping, keen to get her into something less conspicuous on the streets of first world war London than a miniskirt, bustier and cloak. Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins: ‘People really thought that only men loved action movies’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z So why was the first great British victory of the second world war being fought on north African soil at all? The Phantom Army of Alamein by Rick Stroud - review 2012-12-21T22:55:05Z Tonight at the North Wall in Oxford you can catch Idle Motion's That Is All You Need to Know, set at Bletchley Park during the second world war. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z Suzuki, also a second world war veteran, was an inimitable stylist who specialized in Japanese B-movies, particularly in the yakuza genre. Burning desire: John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Photograph: Royal Air Force Museum/PA The only surviving German second world war Dornier Do 17 bomber is to be raised from its watery grave in the English Channel in an operation announced on Friday. German bomber to rise from its English Channel grave 2013-05-03T08:35:50Z Khan's commission is part of Lest We Forget, a programme inspired by the first world war. Akram Khan and Russell Maliphant to create works for ENB 2013-06-10T15:56:12Z It had no great literary pretensions but sold well, its anti-war message resonating with a public still recovering from the second world war and living in the shadow of the cold war. Korean war: a British soldier's memories of a forgotten conflict 2013-07-24T13:56:37Z Like many soldiers who survived the second world war, he was emotionally guarded, and rarely talked about the things he'd witnessed in battle. The music we choose at funerals reveals much about our loved ones 2013-06-18T13:22:53Z Cooper said he was "fully aware that many young Japanese are woefully uneducated" about the crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany and Japan during the second world war. Japanese pop group Kishidan's 'Nazi' outfits force Sony to apologise 2011-03-02T09:49:30Z In many ways it anticipated the cataclysms of the 20th century and the horrors of the first world war and the Russian revolution. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z The young man not long out of Eton and Oxford found the idea wearisome, but the outbreak of the second world war piqued his interest. Per ardua ad Astor 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Those divisions have long since virtually vanished but one barrier remained: that of youth and age – a barrier created by the very rise of pop after the second world war. Jay-Z and Marina Abramović rekindle art's relationship with pop 2013-07-11T15:47:21Z It was a hard-fought prize during the second world war, occupied at different times by Allied and Axis forces. Tobruk: too patchy to stand out from the rank and file 2013-03-21T10:19:17Z My dad never talked about the second world war, never talked about finding my brother dead, never talked about marital problems when it was obvious they were very unhappy together at times. What does it mean to be a man? Guardian readers respond 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The first world war The second world war The Boer war The American civil war In The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, why does Colin’s father Archibald Craven seal off the secret garden? Fathers in fiction - quiz 2012-06-15T14:58:01Z The four Cazalet books form a tightly constructed and beautifully written narrative charting the shifting fortunes of an upper-middle-class English family during and after the second world war. Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I'm 90. Writing is what gets me up in the morning' 2013-04-06T23:05:23Z True, in the years between the world wars, this posse of activist composers tried to invade the established musical order to create a climate conducive to modern American music. Music: William Schuman?s Legacy as Teacher and Composer 2010-03-31T21:13:00Z What happened afterwards was obviously so awful – the holocaust, world war two, everything. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z So I decided to do things a little differently and concentrated on producing a monologue given by an ailing Debussy, lying on his deathbed in Paris, and engulfed by the first world war. Lucy Parham: My voyage round Debussy 2013-06-21T15:49:43Z Set at the very end of the second world war, the film expresses a revulsion with violence, a longing instead for ordinary affection. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z The first world war was the first mechanised war. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z The standard words of the Latin Mass of the Dead are interspersed with poetry from the first world war by Wilfred Owen. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: a guide in clips 2012-05-18T16:16:00Z Even before the great cataclysm of the first world war, everything had changed. Modernism's first wave: turn-of-the-century literature 2013-01-17T11:44:48Z The impact of the country’s two brutal — and fortunately unsuccessful — world wars on the collective German consciousness informed how Berger approached the project. In a German ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ History Has a Starring Role 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z By the time the second world war broke out, he was seriously unwell, suffering from a degenerating heart condition, yet he didn't spare himself in the fight for Britain's economic survival. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z He served with the 4th Queen's Own Hussars during the second world war, spending four years in prisoner-of-war and labour camps in Austria. Dad's Army actor Clive Dunn dies 2012-11-07T16:39:49Z I also have a memoir coming out, except mine is about my relatives during the second world war. The critical drubbing for Will Self’s book shows there’s a subtle art to memoir | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Oida attempts to put some muscle into the narrative by relocating the action within a first world war prison camp, strikingly depicted in Tom Schenk's designs. The Pilgrim's Progress – review 2012-11-06T17:51:52Z Flanders, August 1914 Act one, scene one of the event that shaped the 20th century: the world’s strongest army on the march at the beginning of the first world war in August 1914. A history of Europe in pictures: 1900-1945 2011-03-15T13:12:34Z Italy’s Futurism and Britain’s Vorticism celebrated movement and even violence, enthusiasms that lost some appeal because of two world wars. In the galleries: At Hillyer, a universe of change, instability and chaos 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z It's all a long way from this music, the sophisticated Stravinskyisms and Bartokerie of his First Symphony, composed nearly 50 years earlier, just after the second world war. A guide to Witold Lutosławski's music 2013-01-15T11:35:36Z Pilkington points to the CIA's Psychological Strategy Board, founded after the second world war to promote US propaganda. The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The musical’s ambition is to illuminate the ways in which the forces of history, and specifically the chaotic destruction of an annihilating world war, affect the lives of artists and other visionaries, and art itself. | 'The Blue Flower': ?The Blue Flower? at Second Stage Theater - Review 2011-11-10T03:01:06Z After attending the University of Miami and serving in the army during the second world war, he began his progress through the ranks of show business. Elliott Kastner obituary 2010-07-29T17:26:00Z Drawing on an autobiographical novel published by a veteran, Axworthy delivers a harrowing description of appallingly wasteful trench warfare in conditions rivalling the first world war. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z These register less in the US, Roberts said, because the narrative of the second world war leader is still dominant. Churchill 'in the year of Trump': Darkest Hour feeds America's love for Winston 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Top of the British victory wave was 1917, Sam Mendes’s technically audacious film following two British soldiers in the first world war, which won for best picture – drama and best director. Golden Globes 2020: 1917 and Fleabag lead British invasion with major wins 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z It seemed like everyone did Anouilh after the second world war: now his star has sadly waned. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z In part, that means putting a face to the man whose received pronunciation graced so many of the company's reports in the second world war, Bob Danvers-Walker. TV highlights 25/08/2011: Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live 2011 2011-08-24T22:00:01Z “However, the French have a culture of conserving things, which I think comes from our grandparents and great-grandparents. They lost a lot throughout the world wars, and thought the posters could be something to save.” In a gray, empty Paris, this corner shop’s colorful posters transport you wherever you want to go 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Michael Collins takes an educative and nostalgic look back at the history of council housing, inaugurated to rid the nation of 19th-century slums and to provide "homes fit for heroes" following the first world war. Tonight's TV highlights: Living with The Ayatollah - Panorama 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z On Saturday, Professor Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, will be outlining the major trends in the volatile period leading up to the first world war. Was the first world war accompanied by a rising literary nationalism? 2013-01-29T17:21:44Z Second world war comedy Jojo Rabbit has won this year’s people’s choice award at the Toronto film festival, a prize that’s seen by many as a major predictor of Oscar success. Hitler comedy Jojo Rabbit primed for Oscars after winning top Toronto award 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The Phillips Collection and the Museum of Modern Art in New York each own half of the series, which depicts the movement of African Americans from the South to the North between the world wars. Exhibitions celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian’s African American Museum 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Rickets was eradicated from the UK during the second world war when food was fortified with vitamins. All babies should be given vitamin D from birth, say experts 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z "We were a generation," Graham Greene later wrote in Ways of Escape, "brought up on adventure stories who had missed the enormous disillusionment of the first world war, and so we went looking for adventure." The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review 2013-01-20T09:00:03Z It would take another world war, however, before Vegemite became part of Australian national identity. A rose in every cheek: 100 years of Vegemite, the wartime spread that became an Aussie icon 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Coming in with 10 nominations are Sam Mendes’s first world war thriller 1917, Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to 1960’s LA, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Martin Scorsese’s wintry mob epic, The Irishman. Oscars 2020: Joker aces nominations – but Academy trumps Baftas for diversity 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Uber is an alternate history story where, at the close of the second world war, Nazi Germany invents a way to enhance humans, starting a desperate arms race. Young Avengers: Marvel at Kieron Gillen's new creations 2013-01-18T13:00:00Z Their early works in this genre used old postcards found in antique shops or market stalls to evoke lost worlds: postcards from the first world war trenches, postcards of famous paintings and ruined buildings. Gilbert and George: Postcards from the sluice gates 2011-01-12T21:45:01Z The Cenotaph takes its name from the Ancient Greek for "empty tomb": it is simple in form, yet challenges us to consider the meaning of two world wars and their human cost. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z The painting dates from 1938, and a second world war was looming. World War I — The Quick. The Dead. The Artists. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z In the years that followed the second world war she struggled, on a small income, to give me a happy fulfilling childhood. The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z The overall portrait is of an economically comfortable family in an anxious age, the postwar years when Europe was still shellshocked from two world wars and England’s leisure class was feeling unmoored. Review: In ‘A Day by the Sea,’ Words Unsaid or Said Quite Bluntly 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Fonagy said that the looser connection between children and adults had been happening since the second world war, but the shift had become more pronounced in recent years. Technology cuts children off from adults, warns expert 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z The militaristic demands of two world wars – the extensive mapping of England in the name of security – had, for Forster, robbed the island of its wild places. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z A second breach was opened after the second world war by journalists, and especially Chapman Pincher of the Daily Express, who is the undoubted hero of this book. Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain by Christopher Moran – review 2013-01-10T08:00:01Z We went through two world wars without closure. The story of the Volunteer Park Conservatory, turning 100 this year 2012-08-08T23:27:05Z And his father, who was part of Lord Asquith’s cabinet before the first world war, survived the declining fortunes of the Liberal party to lead the doomed mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938. Shades of Byzantium 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Classic shows include David Grindlay's revival of the first world war drama Journey's End, out on nationwide tour and at Richmond next week. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-03-04T18:07:32Z As the patriotic if uncertain lance corporal might well have done, Dunn made several attempts to enlist when the second world war broke out. Clive Dunn obituary 2012-11-07T18:29:21Z As the western world war careened towards war and totalitarianism, the feminine psychic factors were unable to mitigate. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The feeling "that crusader history is repeating itself, that an element of conflict is still burning today" started to emerge following the creation of Israel after the second world war, he said. Christians and Muslims are distorting crusades, says historian 2010-06-02T15:47:00Z He repeatedly returned to his “prophecy” of January 1939 in which he predicted the annihilation of the Jews in the event of a new world war. Hitler and the Holocaust 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Today, many English and American readers of all ages live in a landscape of the imagination that was created before the first world war. Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z Howard had lost both his legs fighting in the second world war, but the injury only served to fire up his passion for dance. The Place: dreams in a drill hall 2010-05-11T21:30:00Z Orga was born in 1908 and his memoir takes the men of the family off to the first world war, freeing the women to tear down the harem shutters. Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-14T18:01:00Z A year later, she was on the 1940 US Olympic team headed for Tokyo when the second world war intervened, cancelling the Games along with her hopes for international fame. Esther Williams dies aged 91: swimmer who starred in MGM musicals 2013-06-06T22:14:09Z The Hungarian artist — a polymath who dipped into art and design and the gray areas in between — survived social upheaval and two world wars. Essential Arts & Culture: A buoyant 'Zoot Suit,' Moholy-Nagy at LACMA, and the power of composer Thomas Adès 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z If Germany’s humiliation at Versailles set the stage for German revanchism in the second world war, then the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire created the festering sore that is today’s Middle East. Heading towards disaster 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z At the outbreak of the second world war, Burn joined the Territorials and, after the most basic training, saw guerrilla action in German-occupied Norway, which ended in disarray for the British troops. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z Liebling, a native New Yorker, wrote about Paris and France for the New Yorker magazine before and after the second world war, with a special ardour for Gallic gastronomy. Why American gastronomy owes so much to France 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Even in 1968, the first world war still cast a powerful shadow over Britain – the memorials, the ceremonies, the still prevalent feeling of a disaster so terrible that it broke the country forever. Jon Savage on song: The Zombies ? Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) 2011-03-17T09:32:54Z His work seems distinctly modern in its recognition of the interdependence of human beings and the natural world, more closely attuned to our own ecological age than that of the first world war. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z The movement flourished in America between the two world wars. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z In Italy, it grew from the ruins of the second world war. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Bereavement is complex today, he says, because of "the erosion of public mourning rituals since the first world war". How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z Two world wars, the Holocaust, anti-colonial movements and the stirrings of the civil rights movement in the US all combined to change human consciousness, at least in the developed world, in the mid-20th century. Why the left is wrong about immigration 2013-03-27T11:59:50Z The first two series take in from the end of the first world war to the late 60s. From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z If it fails, Spielberg's adaptation of British stage hit War Horse set during the first world war is also out later this year – with real horses rather than giant puppets. 2011 film preview: Pirates Of The Caribbean, Terrence Malick, Tintin 2011-01-01T00:05:28Z He’s been gaining some of the best reviews of his career for his latest film as director of the second world war drama Hacksaw Ridge. Mel Gibson: 'I've never discriminated against anyone' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s set during the second world war and is based around a supernatural Nazi experiment. Netflix launching surprise Cloverfield movie after Super Bowl 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Its celebration of the Ku Klux Klan led to a recrudescence of the Klan between the world wars. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z His version would be set during the second world war and the siege of Leningrad, he enthuses. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z After serving in the army during the second world war, he tried his luck in Hollywood, adding an extra "l" to his name. Joe Mantell obituary 2010-10-12T17:04:00Z The notion that otherwise ordinary villagers were capable of such extraordinary inhumanity seemed fairly obvious to her, especially after the second world war. Ghost stories 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z His father, who owned and managed a chain of shoe shops, died in the second world war in service as a special policeman. James Grout obituary 2012-07-03T12:19:13Z Is it conjuring the trenches of the first world war, a walk in the East Anglian countryside or just a bleak mood? Howard Hodgkin 2010-06-28T21:15:00Z She finds her grandfather's diary, learns of his role in post-second world war Palestine and retraces his steps to uncover a heartbreaking truth. 2011 TV preview: gangsters, gap years, off-world colonials 2011-01-01T00:05:29Z With the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war little more than a year away, there will be no shortage of documentaries marking the occasion coming to your small screen. Hillsborough: How They Buried the Truth; The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars – TV review 2013-05-21T06:00:17Z Riffing on Logan's advanced age and apparent inability to ever get any older, it is revealed that the mutant saved the life of Yashida during the second world war. The Wolverine sharpens claws to take on Japanese culture 2013-07-05T12:04:00Z Considering how much TP hates the modern world, and how much he loves the certainties of the second world war, I can't help but think that he could write an excellent The Young Lions-type blockbuster. Men From the Boys by Tony Parsons 2010-05-08T23:10:00Z Yet perhaps its most conspicuous name is a now forgotten man: David Stacton, arguably the most unjustly neglected American novelist of the post-second world war era. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z Yet a shortage of American men after the second world war made it wiser for women to get cosy with one instead of playing the field. Love’s labour 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Any new version would update the action from the second world war period to a modern era. Richard Linklater dives into Incredible Mr Limpet remake 2011-03-16T12:25:06Z Add to that his wounds from the first world war, insomnia, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, and a dangerously increased alcohol intake to counter all the pain, and you have a sick man. A Moveable Feast was written at a time of struggle but seems hopeful – and fun 2012-05-25T13:18:02Z While audiences in the second world war were eager for films reflecting their own battles, people in the future will, thinks Gad, desire escapism and uplift: “We’re all worn down.” The great 80s Zoom reunion! How Josh Gad lured film giants out of lockdown 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z One hesitates to graft biographical material on to a fictional work, especially considering that this book was written after the second world war. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov – review 2013-06-18T15:57:28Z The latest of the Southbank Centre's themed weekends in The Rest Is Noise festival explored the music and culture of Paris in the years around the first world war. Hannigan/London Sinfonietta – review 2013-02-12T12:41:05Z G: It's an interesting town because before the second world war it was German and after 1945 it was Polish, so the mixture of cultures is high. Polish DJ duo Catz n Dogz: 'I got my tape of Michael Jackson's Bad from the guy selling potatoes at the market' 2012-06-08T10:19:00Z In Germany, central and eastern Europe the war is remembered, but it is history: the "great war" is the second world war. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z You hardly get a moment to dwell on the horrors of the first world war before you're on to something else. Museum of Liverpool 2011-07-23T23:06:01Z The fifth season sees the Shelbys coming to terms with a rising tide of fascism around Europe in the buildup to the second world war; Oswald Mosley is in the ascendant. Cillian Murphy: ‘I think James Bond should be a woman, which rules me out’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In secret, Bucky begins to hold a malevolent god responsible; he also comes to see his job as his personal second world war. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z Rebecca Nicholson Just in case you fancy it, here's a space alien's view of the second world war. TV highlights – 06/05/2013 2013-05-06T06:00:23Z Her father was a career soldier who would serve in both world wars; her mother was a secretary. Jayne Cortez, Poet and Performance Artist, Dies at 78 2013-01-04T01:23:58Z But, according to Cook, "in the wake of the second world war and the Iron Curtain people in western Europe almost forgot about the finds." Ice age art at the British Museum was crafted by 'professional' artists 2013-01-24T15:02:19Z Also on display are more recent letters to George Bell, the bishop of Chichester, who spoke out against the allied bombing of German cities during the second world war. Lambeth Palace to exhibit 400 years of religious and royal treasures 2010-05-12T17:31:00Z Before any choice, there was the second world war. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z Her beat was the decayed gentry of Hove and Kensington, people who were struggling on fixed incomes pinched by the first world war. Maid in England 2011-08-19T21:55:04Z It was not until after the first world war that relations between the communities began to deteriorate seriously. The Arabs and the Holocaust by Gilbert Achcar 2010-06-25T23:09:00Z Even when I studied it later, and read articles about it, they seemed to suggest that it was a book about time, or art, or the first world war. Summer reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 2011-08-10T10:35:43Z Created just months before the second world war, Batman's world is a ruined one. In praise of … Batman 2012-07-19T21:33:16Z After graduating, he travelled in Europe, and in the second world war served in the Army Intelligence Corps, stationed in the Middle East. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z He was born in the 1930s in Pinsk, a Jewish town that suffered all possible atrocities during the second world war. Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Biography by Artur Domoslawski – review 2012-08-02T07:00:02Z Do you think the current tensions between the U.S. and Russia will lead to a third world war? The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Wagner cited President Franklin Roosevelt, who has been honored despite his internment of Japanese Americans during world war two. California lawmakers reject John Wayne Day over racist statements 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Much of Fleming's background for the Bond novels was drawn from his years in British naval intelligence during the second world war, a career he embarked upon after failed attempts at banking and stockbroking. Duncan Jones to direct Ian Fleming biopic 2012-05-21T13:42:26Z Comfort's views during the second world war were out of tune with their moment. The joy of Alex Comfort 2012-12-28T22:55:14Z Narrated by Jamie Parker, Walton's Henry V suite was a reminder of Olivier's film, made as a national morale booster during the second world war, but including sadness and amorous charm, as well as bullishness. CLC/RPO/Wetton – review 2012-11-27T17:32:33Z Anyway, after the Greco-Turkish war, Andrew and Alice were kicked out of Greece with their five children – four girls, who would marry Germans who later served under Hitler in the second world war. TV review: The Queen's Mother in Law; Bad Education; Gates 2012-08-21T21:35:01Z After serving with the Australian Infantry Force in the second world war, he began a dozen fruitful years in British films. John McCallum obituary 2010-04-07T18:14:00Z It tells the true story of a German conscientious objector who was executed after refusing to fight in the second world war. The most exciting films of 2018 by big-name directors 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z He first went there in 2000, on the trail of a Hungarian soldier who vanished during the second world war, only to be discovered in a mental hospital. Emmanuel Carr?re: Betraying confidences 2010-10-19T13:19:00Z Photograph: Robert Day David Hare is enjoying a major retrospective of his work in Sheffield, which includes two of his best plays: the post-second world war drama, Plenty, and Racing Demon. This week's new theatre 2011-02-19T00:05:55Z He endured poverty and the Depression and, in 1943, joined the US navy, serving as a signalman in the second world war. Tony Curtis obituary 2010-09-30T13:06:00Z Plenty shows Morahan's character aiding the French Resistance during the second world war, and then becoming stranded in the stultifying realities of peacetime. Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z They include All of Us, a sequence of 31 war poems never fully published before, which reveal Lawrence's preoccupation with the Allies' campaigns in the first world war. DH Lawrence's poetry 'ruined by censorship' 2013-03-24T00:06:30Z His new commission, unveiled this week, revisits artworks and exhibitions that have occupied this space since the second world war, replayed in a looping seven-and-a-half minute video. Phantom Ride: Simon Starling's Tate Britain time machine 2013-03-11T18:08:11Z The Octopus, which costs $384,000 a week to run, is sturdy enough that, in 2015, he used it to find a second world war battleship off the coast of the Philippines. Why the super-rich are taking their mega-boats into uncharted waters 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z McCrory is playing Celia, a fractious 1950s housewife who spent the second world war driving ambulances and now fritters away her days playing tennis and seeking real eggs for an omelette. Helen McCrory: 'Attack yourself ? don't get lazy' 2010-06-01T21:00:00Z The hope is that the five-metre-long Naval Officers of World War I by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope might be returned to its former glory in time for the first world war centenary in 2014. Arts groups to ask for donations via mobile phone 2013-03-27T19:58:52Z On the eve of the second world war, she and her parents decamped to England. Pamela Green obituary 2010-05-19T17:18:00Z Jake and Dinos Chapman's End of Fun has caused controversy in a country where depictions of Nazism are often seen as an affront to Russia's efforts during the second world war. Hermitage instils shock of the new with contemporary art wing 2012-11-28T19:47:24Z The 120-metre-deep mine was built in the 17th century and briefly used during the second world war as a bomb shelter. 10 of the best eccentric attractions in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Wright's second world war service was spent as a signaller in the Royal Navy. Geoffrey Wright obituary 2010-12-07T18:28:00Z He might well have remained on the wrong side of the camera had it not been for the second world war. Jimmy Gardner obituary 2010-06-16T17:14:00Z Paula Byrne, author of The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things, told the Daily Telegraph this week that Austen's novels were prescribed to shell shock victims of the first world war. Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z The premise is enticing: since the second world war, the British sovereign has met each week with the prime minister. Stephen Daldry 2013-02-10T07:00:19Z But the journey takes them through time and the conflict zones of the first and second world wars, through Vietnam and to our own era of dusty desert wars. Zinnie Harris: Next stop Nam 2011-08-09T20:59:01Z After the end of the second world war, the Argentinian appetite for anything European remained enormous. Horacio Coppola obituary 2012-06-22T09:36:18Z It takes place in late August, marking the anniversary of the second world war resistance movement, the Slovak National Uprising of 1944. 20 great boutique music festivals Europe summer 2019 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z In 1940, Britain was enduring the darkest days of the second world war. Tea Revives the World 2010-05-11T08:13:00Z Raffles Place, Singapore … 'European withdrawal after the second world war was never in doubt.' The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z During the second world war he was involved in counterespionage with the American forces, and as normal political activity resumed ahead of the 1948 election, he worked as a publicist for the Christian Democrats. Gualtiero Jacopetti obituary 2011-08-18T21:06:08Z By contrast, the great cubist experiment of Picasso and Braque before the first world war was never a rejection of the material, visible, ordinary world. The joy of cubism 2010-04-26T10:18:00Z This enterprise contributes to the loss of the family savings, in the midst of the economic debacle before the second world war. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z Pardo made his mark right away, reading news dispatches on the radio filed from the front lines during the second world war. Don Pardo, SNL announcer for four decades, dies aged 96 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Sky buys rights to HBO's Band of Brothers follow-up The Pacific Second world war drama produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will air on Sky Movies in the UK. The new Upstairs, Downstairs is more period than drama 2010-12-27T12:00:00Z After the second world war, testing shifted to the southern Pacific Ocean on the grounds of public safety. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z The second film from Laszlo Nemes, who won the foreign language Oscar earlier this year for Son of Saul, is a coming-of-age drama set in Budapest just before the first world war. The most exciting period and historical films of 2017 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z He saw action in France in the second world war, arriving in Abbeville, Picardy, in May 1940 where he saw, as the diary of one of his fellow soldiers records, "modern warfare at its foulest". TV review: Who Do You Think You Are?; Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies; John Barrowman's Dallas 2012-08-29T22:10:01Z Currently, imaginary dystopias are replacing familiar fictional backgrounds of historical upheaval such as the French Revolution or the second world war as places where children are forced into managing their own lives. Book doctor: Are children's books darker than they used to be? 2013-06-24T16:30:35Z Inspired by the vegetation ceremonies described in Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough, Eliot paints a sweeping portrait of the European zeitgeist, and that of London in particular after the first world war. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z He fought in the second world war, in fact, although Scott points out that this not strictly true because he never saw action. 'I don’t want a publicist': Dougray Scott on film, fame and his father's war stories 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z A few years ago Penguin released a great series of true-life second world war stories such as George Psychoundakis's The Cretan Runner. Choose July's Reading group book 2013-06-26T13:35:35Z The series of short plays will be at Southwark Playhouse from next Thursday as part of Theatre Uncut, which offers a response to the biggest cuts in public services since the second world war. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-03-11T17:35:17Z A man who, by all accounts, fought bravely in the first world war, and suffered dreadfully – he had poison gas to thank for heavy breathing Hemingway remarks upon. A Moveable Feast was written at a time of struggle but seems hopeful – and fun 2012-05-25T13:18:02Z It widened the release massively, highlighting reviews that compared Star Wars to old Saturday-morning space-opera serials, second world war movies and samurai epics. Success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a true Hollywood box office triumph 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The real draw, however, is Bill Murray as Roosevelt, courted by the Brits in the looming shadow of the second world war. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-05-25T23:05:09Z Adapted from the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse spins the tale of a boy's devotion to his horse, which is sold to the cavalry and sent to France during the first world war. Steven Spielberg skips Clinton wedding to meet Dartmoor pigs 2010-08-09T15:56:00Z An era of increased suburbanization led to a growing interest in home food gardening, as did the pressure to grow food during both world wars and the Great Depression. Perspective | The wheel hoe comes full circle 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The first world war and the interwar period, for instance, were for most Londoners years of unprecedented prosperity. A People's History of London by John Rees and Lindsey German – review 2012-06-22T21:55:20Z The world war one novelists Sebastian Faulkes and Pat Barker will also be on the committee, along with three leading defence figures from each party Lord King, Lord Robertson, and Menzies Campbell. David Cameron announces £50m fund for first world war commemorations 2012-10-11T19:12:20Z Frank's detailed knowledge of how aircraft were constructed was gained during the second world war when he was in the RAF. Frank Munger obituary 2010-09-01T17:17:00Z The fourth adaptation, The Night Watch, a chronologically reversed story set in the second world war, reflected the shift in her writing to more nuanced and sombre worlds. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Auden's poem, written and set in New York, marks the opening of the second world war "As the clever hopes expire / Of a low dishonest decade". John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles 2012-06-01T21:55:10Z Kale Kale – chewy and bland, but high in fibre and iron – is nothing new: it featured prominently in the Dig For Victory campaign during the second world war, but fell from favour soon after. Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Looking at them, you would not know that Matisse lived through both world wars and the Great Depression, or that Paris fell to enemy troops twice in his lifetime - in 1871 and 1940. Exhibit looks at enigmatic phase in Matisse's art 2010-03-19T10:29:00Z So, why not read Oliver Sacks's Awakenings , his classic account of how the drug L-dopa awoke victims of the post-first world war encephalitis lethargica epidemic in the late 1960s? Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z With the second world war under way, he joined the RAF and in 1942 became a bomber pilot, a role that might not have sat as easily on many of his successors in television. Robert Kee obituary 2013-01-11T18:56:24Z Basil Radford plays a flustered Englishman sent to command a Home Guard force on a remote Scottish island during the second world war. Whisky Galore! ? review 2011-07-28T21:30:01Z Beginning in Vienna immediately after the first world war and ending in California in the 1980s, his output explored virtually every significant stylistic innovation of the 20th century, except minimalism. Krenek: Music for Chamber Orchestra – review 2012-05-31T21:21:01Z After begging his recently widowed mother to allow him to join the Royal Navy during the second world war, Jarrott served in the far east while still a teenager. Charles Jarrott obituary 2011-03-06T18:49:41Z “Oklahoma!” felt genuine, sincere and all-American, qualities important to a nation engaged in a world war. Review | The secret to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s remarkable partnership 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z They played a tremendous role in both world wars, and they are still a way to send an undetectable message. Pigeon museum will be a new stop for Oklahomans 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z However, Thompson suggests the movie will feature multiple narrators and time frames, and there is also a segue in which the child's grandparents reveal how they met and married during the second world war. Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks set to star in Extremely Loud film 2010-08-24T12:42:00Z The leader now renowned as an unyielding critic of the "iron curtain" spent much of the second world war convinced of the essential good faith of Joseph Stalin. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z In the background of all of this, visible in random newspaper headlines, is the inexorable buildup to world war. 'Testament of Youth' traces WWI's grave effect on woman's life 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z When the second world war came he flew to the colours. Sam Beazley obituary 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Violet and Lawrence seize one night of happiness in 1942, before he is sent off to fight the Japanese in the second world war. Roundabout – review 2012-09-26T17:45:20Z Tom Hooper's monarch-ish drama about King George VI's struggles to overcome a stammer on the eve of the second world war is a deftly shot, beautifully acted, curiously moving tub-thumper buoyed by a classy bromance. A critic's view of the Baftas 2011 2011-02-14T01:15:17Z The most glaring quality separating them pertains to setting, with Tarantino diving right into the second world war while Hunters picks up in 1977, joining a coalition of survivors and the descendants carrying their torch. Why I love the shameless, gory, Nazi-killing catharsis of Amazon's Hunters 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Key elements are exactly the same: a hero named Ted Stryker, a former second world war fighter pilot still haunted by the six comrades killed because of a decision he made in combat. Airplane! at 40: the best spoof comedy ever made? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Three of the stories in Binocular Vision, which follow the same characters through the second world war, seem to be reaching towards a novel, but she is clearly happiest over the rapid span. Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman – review 2013-02-28T10:00:01Z George Lucas co-produces this story of the African-American Tuskegee Airmen and their role in the second world war, fighting both Nazis and racism. This week's new films 2012-06-08T23:05:15Z The plight of Europe’s largest refugee crisis since the second world war – a million refugees in 2015 alone – is well documented and gutting, on film and in print. Midnight Traveler: a powerful refugee documentary filmed on a phone 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes sparked a revolution in taste after the first world war, taking modernism out of the salon and into the music hall. How Diaghilev's Ballets Russes kept British cinema on its toes 2010-12-22T15:08:50Z These numbers are set in Harlem between the world wars, specifically at the Savoy Ballroom, as Black artists perform for Black audiences. Review: ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’,’ Saving Its Love (and Pain) for You 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z It survived San Francisco’s devastating 1906 earthquake, Prohibition and both world wars. Anchor Brewing, the Oldest Craft Brewer in the U.S., Will Close After 127 Years 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z There they survived the opium wars, the Boxer rebellion when the Forbidden City was extensively looted, the toppling of the empire and the establishment of the republic, both world wars and the cultural revolution. V&A set to show off the emperor's old clothes 2010-12-06T18:25:00Z On the surface it might be a series about giant spaceships and lizard-like alien overlords, but it doesn't take much digging to uncover a parable about the rise of fascism and the second world war. Six to watch: US miniseries 2012-08-06T09:57:28Z It looked as if the third world war would break out, but luckily right by the door the hotel manager caught up with the adjutant and began to mollify him. The Birthday Party and the Airman by ?ukasz D?bski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 2011-04-08T10:22:00Z In the same year, Pitt landed the part of a German double agent posing as a cafe waitress in the popular second world war yarn, Where Eagles Dare. Ingrid Pitt obituary 2010-11-24T14:40:00Z Annilese Miskimmon's production of Falstaff for Opera Holland Park updates Verdi's comedy to the years immediately after the first world war, opening not in a pub but a convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Falstaff – review 2012-07-23T16:35:38Z They are terse, economical, and impressively coherent, most clearly indebted to the Second Viennese School and to Webern especially, but also to the composers who followed in his wake after the second world war. Trojahn: String Quartets Nos 3 and 4; etc ? review 2011-07-28T20:30:01Z The Tunnels themselves were employed as an impromptu mortuary during the second world war. How theatre went underground ? and reached the mainstream 2010-09-07T13:29:00Z When, a few years later, radio found a role in the first world war, the link was reinforced. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z Before the second world war, Britons couldn't get enough of the stuff, of course. For the love of lard: why fat is back on the menu 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z His one-off programme on the first world war was the basis of the stage version of Oh What a Lovely War. Charles Chilton 2013-01-14T18:14:41Z It was common in world war two victory gardens. Kale is a four-letter word – but why? 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z From Japan came the howlingly sad Grave of the Fireflies, the story of a boy and his younger sister in the ruined last days of second world war. Death wears Mickey Mouse ears: how Disney is doing parents a favour 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Frankenstein's Army takes place in the dying days of the second world war. Frankenstein's Army trailer: a treat for you reanimated killer Nazi fans 2013-07-16T16:55:48Z Let’s say from a German point-of-view the country was defeated in the first world war. The Jewish family on Hitler’s street: “We didn’t know he was going to turn the world upside... 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Written on the eve of the first world war and the Russian revolution, the piece is the emblem of an era of great scientific, artistic and intellectual ferment. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z The plot, with its combination of world war, doomed romance and exotic locations, seems designed to catch the attention of Hollywood producers in search of another “English Patient.” In Justin Go’s ‘The Steady Running of the Hour,’ a young man races to find his fortune There's a trail taking in sites such as a first world war trench mortar, plus an action station where kids get the opportunity to try camouflage gear for themselves. Events picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z Next up is Danish composer Carl Nielsen's Fourth Symphony, Inextinguishable, composed at a time when the first world war was raging, which probably helps explain its timpani battle. TV highlights 19/07/2013 2013-07-19T06:00:06Z In 1996 Porter edited The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse, an anthology embracing several of the conflicting tendencies in post-second world war poetry. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z Film had become very popular, very quickly; weekly audiences were to reach an estimated 20 million during the first world war. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z Violent second world war stories were a mainstay of Fleetway's output, featuring square-jawed Tommies bayoneting craven Germans while snarling xenophobic insults. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z But the two films that most immediately came to my mind on seeing both appeared shortly after the second world war. Shadow Dancer – review 2012-08-25T23:08:02Z We are about to see him in a stunning film adaptation of the 2012 novel, The Light Between Oceans, set on a remote island off Western Australia shortly after the first world war. Michael Fassbender: ‘I was a bit of a worrywart. I’ve tried to work on that’ 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z His overall concept, showing Faust as a physicist disgusted by the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, and returning to his own youth at the time of the first world war, works well enough. Faust 2010-09-20T21:00:00Z His first world war classic, Paths of Glory, remains one of the most powerful antiwar movies. Stanley Kubrick was planning children's film before his death 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z This week's live webchat by very popular request is with , whose second world war novel The Night Watch was televised only this week. Sarah Waters 2011-07-13T09:17:12Z London was, of course, in a state of destruction after the second world war. Leon Kossoff's love affair with London 2013-04-27T10:00:04Z Lamarr’s greatest scientific triumph was intended for the US navy during the second world war, but is now used in modern wireless communication. Hedy Lamarr – the 1940s ‘bombshell’ who helped invent wifi 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Moved with her family to the US after the second world war. Yoko Ono: happy 80th birthday! 2013-02-18T06:00:45Z This piece, inspired by Jules Verne's posthumous novel, brings together a group of dreamers who set out to create a better world on the brink of the first world war. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-17T23:05:38Z Of Scottish and Irish parentage, Terry was born in Dublin, and during the second world war moved from one place to another, in Ireland, Scotland and England, with his family. Terry Keegan obituary 2012-07-12T13:36:21Z Photograph: Hulton Getty The horrors of the second world war led a number of composers to create some of their finest, most heartfelt work. Carl Davis: my Kindertransport song cycle 2012-06-15T10:28:34Z Between the two world wars, reformers in the eugenics movement justified the involuntary sterilization of tens of thousands of working-class women as a measure to reduce the birthrate of the “socially inadequate.” Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z We began trying to make a different kind of society after the second world war. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Futrell estimates there were more than 1,000 trolley parks in the United States in the decade before the first world war, many of them in small suburban towns. Can This Amusement Park Be Saved? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The year is 1914, and the first months of the first world war, but the date is given in Roman numerals, as if on a memorial or cenotaph. John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles 2012-06-01T21:55:10Z Galicia’s Jewish community virtually disappeared after the second world war. A successful Austrian invention 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z These include the rumoured ghost of a young woman, and chalk drawings on the walls of enemy planes made during the second world war, when the theatre’s roof was used as a lookout. 'This building gives me so many ideas': creatives on the spaces that inspire them 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z More startlingly, Jackson will reportedly use the transformative digital techniques that he applied to his first world war film They Shall Not Grow Old. Dune, Bond and Top Gun returns: Films to look out for in 2021 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z When JRR Tolkien dreamed up the sprawling yet gorgeously detailed fantasy world of Middle-earth before the second world war, he had in mind the creation of an epic myth for the English people. Make mine a Darth Vader burger! The weirdest edible movie tie-ins 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z It's a smartly stupid, sketch-formatted, song-studded romp through history, from ancient civilisations to world wars, with the emphasis firmly on the gory and gruesome. Take five: box sets for primary school-age kids 2012-08-28T11:00:22Z Following the second world war, after leaving his birthplace of Shanghai and moving to England, he studied medicine with the aim of becoming a psychiatrist. A brief survey of the short story part 26: JG Ballard 2010-06-10T15:24:00Z Schlager, a strange genre of music, emerged after the second world war. Schlager louts: meet Germany's biggest pop stars 2011-03-15T11:36:24Z In some of your novels, local conflicts escalate to world wars. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z He served in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars during the second world war, spending four years in prisoner-of-war and labour camps in Austria. Clive Dunn, young old man of Dad's Army, dies aged 92 2012-11-07T18:52:29Z You pass great cathedrals and prehistoric barrows, castles, medieval farms and the remnants of second world war defences. 'Like cycling through history': 220-mile King Alfred’s Way launched 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z It is impossible to understand the causes of the first and second world wars without registering the humiliation felt by France in 1870-71. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z It is also important to remember this was a true world war: it was not only fought on the fields of Flanders and the Somme. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z In German, they inform us, to "get yourself Franzed", deriving from the generic name for a navigator in the imperial German flying corps during the first world war, means to become hopelessly lost. Christmas gifts 2012: the best stocking-filler books 2012-11-28T13:00:03Z When Joey is sold off to the army by Albert's father, as a cavalry horse at the start of the first world war, Albert joins up to go looking for him. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z Very clever people, such as the codebreakers in the second world war, will find a way round it. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Serpent’s Tail; £25. Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk Most people know that the first world war produced some of the finest poetry of the 20th century. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z When Germany could not repeat its rowing victory over England on the battlefields of the second world war, the way Germans viewed the Olympic heritage of Berlin changed. The shameful legacy of the Olympic Games 2012-06-14T19:00:08Z The Hungarian director’s follow-up again looks to mine history for urgent, relevant drama, telling the story of a young woman’s coming of age in pre-first world war Budapest. The most exciting films of 2018 by big-name directors 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z As a captain in the Devonshire Regiment during the second world war, he was seconded to the Army Film and Photographic Unit, then became a war correspondent in Korea. Alan Whicker, globetrotting TV presenter, dies aged 87 2013-07-12T14:56:37Z For the two decades after the second world war, there wasn't anyone who could touch us for engineering, innovation and all-round bloody marvellousness. TV review: Who Do You Think You Are?; Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies; John Barrowman's Dallas 2012-08-29T22:10:01Z Seven decades after the end of the second world war, they are still as actively involved as ever in seeking justice for the victims and survivors of SS war crimes and the French Vichy collaborators. The family firm that hunts Nazis 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z The first shots of the second world war were fired here and the focus is on the tragic experience of Poland. 10 of the best museums close to railway stations in Europe: readers’ tips 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Bonnefoy came of age in the midst of a world war, and a seeming collapse of all civilized values and beliefs. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z I was thinking of the Morrissey song The Lazy Sunbathers," says Byers, "in which a world war is announced but it doesn't bother the people on the beach. Debut author: Sam Byers 2013-04-21T14:00:01Z Baker grew up during the second world war, and took to heart a letter left for him when he was 14 by his late father: "Use your fists; they are your best pals." Beware of Mr Baker – review 2013-05-16T14:29:00Z In his introduction to a 2004 edition of Birdsong, his own contribution to first world war literature, Faulks notes that most novels about the war "were disappointing". The first world war's great novelist: David Jones 2011-02-04T13:58:23Z Amid mass immigration, industrial strife, women's suffrage, world war and racial unrest, it evoked a genteel-sounding, rural past where everyone knew their place. The corrupt nostalgia of “My Old Kentucky Home” 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z After the first world war, anti-French pressure grew until Ho Chi Minh, whom Mr Goscha depicts less as a communist ideologue than as a crafty statesman, declared independence on September 2nd 1945. Striving for unity 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z According to him, instances of atopic illnesses such as eczema and asthma rose sharply after the second world war, which is also when detergents were introduced as a household cleansing agent. 'I have three seconds before she draws blood': life with extreme eczema 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z No Man's Land is a memorial to the losses of the first world war, of which Matthews's grandfather was a casualty. Prom 50: CLS/Layton ? review 2011-08-22T10:11:37Z Scott, who was knighted in 2003, is about to make a film about the Battle of Britain during the second world war, when the Royal Air Force fought off the German Luftwaffe. Ridley Scott: aliens are out there and one day they'll come for us 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The culture reflected a growing self-confidence in the decades following the second world war. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z Author Helen Dunmore, whose talk at the Art of Fear weekend addresses the cultural legacy of the second world war. Art of fear: which are the best books inspired by the second world war? 2013-05-09T16:08:37Z What followed, as this doc featuring previously unseen archive footage relates, was a life that encompassed treatment by Sigmund Freud, second world war heroism, and, for her son, a decidedly difficult childhood. TV highlights 21/08/2012 2012-08-20T19:00:01Z "Bitterness", when used to describe the Major's attitude to his experience of the first world war, conveys years of unspeakable pain. Looking back at the Lost Booker: JG Farrell 2010-04-15T11:26:00Z During the second world war, the community was part of the Confessing Church, an opposition movement that stood against the Nazi regime from 1934 onwards, resisting the alignment of Protestantism with National Socialism. My grandfather's whole family were murdered – but he found a way to forgive the killers 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Servants became somewhat scarcer during the first world war, when women were delighted to be offered jobs that took them outside the home and granted them free time. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z "The Greatest Generation", who survived the Depression and won the second world war, were too busy shortening their skirts, growing their hair and trying to be us. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Career: Began singing to entertain the troops during the second world war. Petula Clark, singer – portrait of the artist 2013-01-29T16:00:01Z Educated at home, then at Loretto school, Edinburgh, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, Forman was 21 when the second world war broke out. Sir Denis Forman obituary 2013-02-25T13:46:32Z Screen Daily reported this week that the maverick Dutch film-maker has at least three upcoming projects planned, including a film about the second world war French resistance titled Lyon 1943, and a movie about Jesus. The next Paul Verhoeven? I'd buy that for a dollar 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The ensuing friendship is touching – and, when the second world war breaks out, of national importance. Winter Arts Calendar 2010-12-26T00:05:15Z Following a child’s gruelling trek across an unspecified eastern European wasteland at the end of the second world war, it’s almost ostentatiously punishing, but marked throughout by ghoulish beauty. Streaming: the best jazz films 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z In Hertfordshire after the second world war a series of elegant, light-filled schools were created in the face of low budgets and shortages of materials. Michael Gove's standardised schools not such a class act 2013-04-13T23:05:30Z Sweet thinks the second world war movie will prove extremely tenacious. Why are we so obsessed with films about the second world war? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The second world war is on, the 12-year-old hero, Bill, and his lower-middle-class family are, as Boorman puts it in his script, "listening attentively to King George VI stuttering painfully through his Christmas message". Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z Dress up as a second world war soldier or a caveman. Matt King's favourite TV: Justified, Prospects 2013-07-01T11:00:00Z Earnest scholars describe biblical stories and related matters much as they would narrate a history of the civil rights movement or a world war, with a studied urgency meant to convey credibility and importance. More Networks Jumping on the Biblical Bandwagon 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Kennedy’s generation came of age in the mid-20th century’s agonizingly long season of Great Depression and world war. Groomed to Be President 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z He was a primary school teacher, but had taken up growing food from necessity during the second world war and afterwards when he was barred from work. Family life 2012-07-13T23:09:32Z Making his debut with Tottenham Hotspur, he was subject to racism on the pitch and was eventually sold to Northampton Town, where he stayed until the outbreak of the first world war. This week's new theatre 2013-02-23T06:00:13Z After the second world war, he studied in France. Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus" 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The Times declared it “overlong” and “a bit too slow in pace,” but “an unforgettable thing to see,” especially in a time darkened by world war. Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Here he tells the story of rich tourists stranded on an island after the rest of humanity has perished from world war and epidemic. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Two Women Running On the Beach, painted in the summer of 1922, is a monument to the new freedoms that swept the world after the first world war. Picasso and beach culture: a cocktail of sand and sensuality 2011-08-18T14:36:21Z The battlefield archaeologist Tony Pollard, who succeeded in matching DNA from an unrecorded first world war cemetery at Fromelles in France with living descendants, finds the saga fascinating. Richard III: unveiling day arrives for skeleton that would be king 2013-02-03T14:57:25Z We may not have won the second world war, but those who say: "I'm not a feminist" would loathe the world we baby boomers altered beyond recognition. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z His father, who had been decorated in the first world war, kept the family going throughout the Depression on his wages as a bookbinder. Kenny Ball 2013-03-07T17:31:53Z During the second world war, the US army commissioned Frank Capra to create a documentary series explaining Why We Fight. National Book Critics Circle award goes to Ben Fountain 2013-03-01T11:05:41Z From the late 18th century until the second world war, it was common to retire to a sanatorium or a spa for a weeks- or months-long programme of rest, fresh air, bathing and steam. From siestas to saunas: the 10 European wellbeing traditions everyone should try 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z It was built in 1928 to replace a chateau destroyed in the first world war, and the Vimy War Memorial is close by. French châteaux: 10 princely stays at affordable prices 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Gunter rose to the rank of lieutenant during the second world war and later created a successful insurance firm, still in business. Hardrock Gunter obituary 2013-03-28T16:22:54Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Man in the High Castle Season: because nothing says Thanksgiving like imagining the Nazis won world war two. From football to Friends: 10 things to watch this Thanksgiving 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z I felt the full horror of the second world war, but that doesn't change the fact that the author was not there. Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort? 2013-03-20T09:22:00Z In the years after the second world war, St-Germain-des-Prés, on the left bank of Paris, was a melting pot of intellectual and artistic life. Nikos Papatakis obituary 2011-03-08T18:36:25Z Behind an unmarked door at the side of an anonymous second world war Nissen hut in the middle of Oxfordshire, a group of scientists are attending to the needs of hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes. Can GM mosquitoes rid the world of a major killer? 2012-07-14T23:05:51Z Both were fascists, who split up before the second world war began. Audrey Hepburn: an iconic problem 2011-01-20T21:30:02Z Robert Zemeckis’s forthcoming Allied is set fair to be a great big blockbuster, a swooning second world war romantic drama. Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Lara, the love of his life, is not only beautiful and brilliant, she is a volunteer nurse during the first world war. Ten of the best good doctors in literature 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z His logic was simple: Prokofiev had composed the work in the middle of the second world war, and Bourne heard an incendiary darkness in it that clamoured to be staged. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-10T17:26:00Z Her soldier father was killed in the second world war and her mother was a locally renowned seamstress. Elzbieta Czyzewska obituary 2010-07-07T17:07:00Z They span the social spectrum, from the well-to-do Victorian gentlemen to the families who huddled together in single rooms during the decades after the second world war when the house degenerated into a tenement slum. Slave trader’s home, slum, des res: the stories of one house raise restless ghosts 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z It's a long hop from Wonderland to the trenches of the first world war, but in poetry all things are possible. Poster poems: July 2012-07-13T15:49:08Z Maybe the first world war movie Wings, the very first best picture winner, from 1927? The new Oscars diversity rules show Hollywood is inching in the right direction | Steve Rose 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Baker's worldview appears to have been shaped by reading a letter left by his father, who was killed in the second world war: "Use your fists," it advised, "they are your best pals." The 10 best music documentaries 2013-05-18T15:00:00Z The writer Robert Graves, a friend of Sassoon, and other doctors who dealt with shell shock during the first world war also appear. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-24T21:55:08Z Love for my dad brought her to Britain on a convoy towards the end of the second world war. Steven Appleby: A life in pictures 2012-10-05T23:04:02Z It's easy to forget that Superman was conceived at the height of the Great Depression and debuted at the start of the second world war. Is Superman's Man of Steel in tune with our times? 2012-10-05T13:07:45Z As a veteran of the second world war, who survived two shipwrecks, his distrust of institutions is clearly felt in his work. Seijun Suzuki: can Japan's cult master cross over? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Veteran Italian costume designer Milena Canonero won her fourth Oscar, this time for "The Grand Budapest Hotel," a film set between world wars in a fictional Eastern European nation. Oscars 2015: Cinematography, film editing, more 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z For almost 25 years, his research and knowledge contributed to many books, projects and programmes on the first and second world wars. David Parry obituary 2012-05-21T16:38:10Z Steven Spielberg’s supersized second world war epic expanded the horizons – and budgets – of prestige TV. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps the greatest general of the second world war … Georgy Zhukov. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts – review 2013-06-28T16:40:00Z There was just one small obstacle for the 20-year-old to overcome: the second world war. Monir Farmanfarmaian: 'In Iran, life models wear pants' 2011-07-12T20:59:01Z Kubrick’s masterpieces include his first world war classic, Paths of Glory, one of cinema’s most powerful anti-war movies, and his Roman epic, Spartacus, both of which starred Kirk Douglas. Newly found Stanley Kubrick script ideas focus on marital strife 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z He opposed federal taxes and American entry into both world wars, which he said would militarize the country and lead to fascism. Michael Wreszin, Biographer of American Radicals, Dies at 85 2012-09-16T00:41:10Z When the second world war broke out, our school in Stockton-on-Tees was taken over by the civil service, and my headteacher allowed me to leave. Experience: I survived 15 days adrift on a raft 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Mr. McAnuff intriguingly updates the story to the period between the world wars. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z He was drafted after graduating in architecture from Yokohama National University in 1944, although he remained stationed in Japan for the remainder of the second world war. Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary 2010-09-05T16:44:00Z Winspear, who sets the books largely in the period between the two world wars, was drawn to that era from a young age. A Traffic Jam Changed Her Life 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Two young men born just after the end of the second world war meet on a music improvisation course. Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band 2013-01-27T09:00:03Z In the second world war, it was considered a moral duty for captured British officers to try to escape, and they came up with the most ingenious – and insane - schemes to try to achieve it. TV review: Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down; The Riots; Escape from Colditz 2012-08-13T21:35:01Z Most of the work in “Art Deco” was created in France between the two world wars. Shows full of sparkle at Museum of Glass 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z No recent historical cataclysm has eclipsed the magnitude of the second world war. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Other characters include Flo, the librarian who wears a first world war German spiked helmet. Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made by Stephan Pastis – review 2013-04-13T07:31:01Z More recent history lies in the second world war ack-ack gun emplacements, still in good shape, but more and more engulfed by the vegetation every year. Great parks and green spaces in the UK: readers’ travel tips 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Diaghilev, in accordance with decadent tradition, drank champagne during the first world war, and made do with his own plots and incendiaries. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z The couple's 56-year marriage remained loving as the decades moved along, through world wars and through peace. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Some of the stories in her new collection, Dear Life, begin with the cultural and economic shift that happened after the second world war and end anytime around now. Dear Life by Alice Munro – review 2012-11-08T08:01:01Z More4 Hermann Goering graduated through the German military, rising from a second world war flying ace to president of the Reichstag. BBC Election 70 2010-10-09T05:45:00Z There have been many novels about the horrors of the first world war; fewer about the uneasy limbo in which people try to maintain their normal lives back home. Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan – review 2013-02-22T21:45:01Z Almost as the story breaks, his part in it becomes a trigger event at best – the Franz Ferdinand moment in the first world war – or a footnote at worst. Why did no one speak out about Harvey Weinstein? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Allied forces gathered in a mirrored baroque palace at the end of the second world war, in dress uniforms or couture gowns or aviator fatigues. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z Keneally manages to conjure the vast territories – geographical and emotional – covered by the first world war. The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally – review 2012-11-09T22:50:01Z And the Depression paved the way for history’s bloodiest conflict, the second world war which left, by some estimates, a mind-numbing 60 million people dead. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Born in Cairo in 1925, Whicker became a journalist after the second world war with news agency Exchange Telegraph and worked as a correspondent during the Korean war. Alan Whicker dies aged 87 2013-07-12T12:06:38Z At the start of the second world war, he joined the Royal Air Force and was soon posted to the RAF school of photography, in Farnborough, Hampshire. Cornel Lucas 2012-11-19T15:34:38Z He gained a degree in education from the University of Oklahoma before serving in the US army air forces in China during the second world war. GD Spradlin obituary 2011-08-16T10:48:15Z It's the tale of one man's experience of the first world war, and a liaison with a Frenchwoman. This week's new theatre 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z He often claimed that, but for the second world war, he might have followed his father's career, but he also described himself as already in rebellion by 1941, when he enrolled at nearby Pomona college. Paul Fussell 2012-05-24T17:27:46Z In the first world war inmates were replaced by 1,100 conscientious objectors, kept in conditions designed to discourage others from the same moral stance. Why I went to prison on my holiday 2010-08-22T18:59:00Z Argentina’s economy boomed between the world wars, and the wealthiest of its residents were frequent visitors to Paris, often spending months at a time there. | 'Jean-Michel Frank in Argentina' 2010-10-20T16:27:00Z Presenter and military historian Saul David focused on a little-known chapter of second world war history: the plight of those left in France or sent there to represent Britain after Dunkirk. How the Rest Got Home 2010-06-03T06:59:00Z The victorious Allied commander in Europe in the second world war, Eisenhower represented a new era—the first Republican elected president since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Riders also pass the desert training centre set up by General Patton to train US troops in the second world war. 10 of the best things to do in Palm Springs, California 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z I also got to know Django's family – they formed strong links with Britain in the second world war. Django Reinhardt: music, mischief and magic 2012-08-19T21:00:00Z An alternate history of the first world war, assuming that besides evolution, Darwin also discovered DNA and how to manipulate it. Sharon Gosling's top 10 children's steampunk books 2013-02-28T11:19:24Z Revisionist history teaches that women got the vote by "proving" their competence during the first world war. Jeanette Winterson: 100 years after the suffragettes 2013-03-29T15:59:01Z Mr Cameron spoke the truth when he called the first world war a fundamental part of our national consciousness. First world war: learning the right lessons from history 2012-10-11T21:43:43Z Major facial procedures remained restorative up to the huge improvements made by Sir Harold Delf Gillies, who is considered the father of modern plastic surgery, and his teams in the first world war. "Love Island": how women with "fake" faces have been belittled throughout history 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z An earlier attempt at a story about the writer's work as a codebreaker during the second world war, tentatively titled Mirkwood, stalled after the Tolkien estate refused to offer its support. Theological JRR Tolkein biopic secures Expendables 2 director 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z His dad also once said to him, about Hitler and the second world war, “Six years later, he was dead in a bunker. So much for the Third Reich”, which makes me laugh. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z I'm looking forward to the BBC2's screening later this year of The Wipers Times, a drama about the satirical newspaper produced by British troops during the first world war. Watch out for The Wipers Times (aka Private Eye in the Ypres trenches) 2013-07-03T11:40:34Z He was one of a generation of New Zealand artists who challenged the conservatism of their homeland, initially provoking derision from the press, in the years after the second world war. Don Peebles obituary 2010-05-02T17:23:00Z Years of poverty and unemployment after the first world war had been followed by six years battling fascism and experiencing huge personal loss in the second. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z "It's based on the typical kind of houses that were here before the street was bombed in the second world war," says Erlich, whose installation was commissioned by the Barbican. Dalston House: the building that lets you defy gravity 2013-06-26T06:00:04Z These pogroms terrified the Glasses but ultimately saved their lives, because any Jew who was still in Chrzanów at the beginning of the second world war was killed. I could never understand my grandmother's sadness – until I learned her tragic story 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z On 21 March, the zoo closed to the public for the first time since the second world war, so it’s always quiet now. Experience: I live in a zoo 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z For me, his offbeat artwork is reminiscent of the best French poster art from between the world wars — artists like Villemot or Savignac. What the Shadow Knows: Picture Books on Runaway Reflections 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “Games Without Frontiers,” in many ways, is The Americans: tense, sly, sinuous, its lyrics contrasting the banal and the menacing, imagining world war as a kind of internationalist Lord of the Flies child’s game. The Americans Watch: It’s a Knockout 2013-05-02T09:45:37Z They met at the Paris peace conference at the end of the first world war, and became firm if improbable friends. Ashmolean exhibition of old masters marks museum's 330th birthday 2013-05-24T16:48:06Z But the real story starts in 1945, when Axis plots against Britain in the colonies gave way to Soviet backing for anti-colonial liberation movements as world war turned to cold war. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z After the worst advertising slump since the second world war, revenues are also finally poised to recover, according to City analysts. Britain's Got Talent leads ITV into Saturday night ratings battle 2010-04-16T18:45:00Z The British handed Syria to the French in a post-first world war carve-up, and the latter's brutal rule provided fertile ground for today's mess. A History of Syria; Panorama – America's Gun Addiction: TV review 2013-03-11T22:00:01Z Remarkably, the men all survived and Levick returned to England in 1913 – in time to sign up for the first world war. 'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal 2012-06-09T10:31:09Z In the summer of 1939, he returned to London to visit his parents and was trapped by the outbreak of the second world war. Chimen Abramsky obituary 2010-03-18T18:38:00Z It's an unremitting story of partisans in a part of Russia occupied by German troops during the second world war. The films that time forgot 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z The period between the second world war and the 1970s has been described as a "golden age" of marriage. Sally Rooney’s "Conversations with Friends" – how British attitudes have become tougher on adultery 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z And, in some ways, he's the American dream personified: he was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, the son of a second world war bomber pilot. Sam Shepard bares his soul 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z Cross of Iron is unusual among second world war movies in that the Germans are the heroes, though it carefully distances its protagonists from actual Nazism. Cross of Iron: gritty story of the German retreat from the Soviet Union 2013-04-18T07:59:49Z We were deep into the Russian winter – never credited enough for its part in the second world war. Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z One only needs to look at the work of the first world war poets like Wilfred Owen to realise that poetry can be upsetting, graphic and hard hitting. Arts head: Sara Blair-Manning, the John Clare Trust and Cottage 2013-05-07T10:45:32Z These events will feature higher on the official list of remembrance than the first world war. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z Miró's arrival in Mallorca at the outbreak of the second world war requires some explanation. Joan Mir?: at home in exile 2011-04-08T23:05:56Z It’s about a code-breaking Quaker poet who caught gangsters, hunted Nazis and helped win the world wars, only to be left out of the history books by men. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Shakespeare Scholar Turned Nazi Hunter 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z More interesting to most Russians are the Aurora’s exploits during the second world war. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z After Forster’s death the caves were sealed again, and in subsequent years were opened and closed as a tourist attraction by several owners and used as air raid shelters in the two world wars. Going underground: the world's most spectacular caves 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Jack had been a first world war pilot, flown with TE Lawrence in Palestine and had run the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Bernard Horsfall obituary 2013-01-30T18:14:17Z Nearly 70 years on, the demand for second world war movies appears unstoppable, the supply inexhaustible. Why are we so obsessed with films about the second world war? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In between the high kicks and low dives, each of her subjects made a serious stab at leveraging the new social and political freedoms available in the years following the first world war. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-01T10:01:01Z It started during the second world war, when her mother was left alone with two small children and "would take a drink to get the courage to check the backdoor". Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral' 2010-10-24T19:59:00Z Even while the second world war was destroying so much of Europe, it was preserving our little outer suburban world in a kind of magic bubble. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-08T21:45:02Z Born in Philadelphia, the son of two Yiddish stage performers, Lumet served as a radar repair man in the second world war before directing theatre productions in New York. Sidney Lumet dies aged 86 2011-04-09T15:44:58Z In his frenzy to modernise Turkey after the first world war, Atatürk destroyed Islamic schools and abolished the veil as a narrowly Asian trapping. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-07T07:01:13Z Are there only a limited number of good novels about topics such as the second world war, or are schools not able to afford new ones? Book doctor: Should schools buy new children's books or stick with the classics? 2013-07-23T09:17:11Z In the second world war, Cologne might have been vital for shipping, but – close to the border with Belgium and the Netherlands – it never embraced nazism as much as other parts of Germany. Ode to Cologne: A German city full of views and brews 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z His own sterling service and decorations for heroism in the second world war counted for nothing. Haskell Wexler, the genius cinematographer committed to the left 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z I understand that it takes place in an English estate in between the world wars, that it follows the trials and tribulations of high-born occupants of said estate and their working-class servants. Downton Abbey: why did America fall so hard for the show? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Strachey saw Queen Victoria in her mourning clothes as heralding the explosion of the first world war. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z "The orchestra has survived a 'save the symphony' campaign in the early 1900s, it has survived a couple of world wars and a depression," Vulgamore said. Musicians clamor for answers from Philly Orchestra 2011-04-25T21:08:12Z This weekend Moscow celebrates the 65th anniversary of the end of the second world war and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Vasily Grossman 2010-05-06T14:42:00Z It was conceived as a cure hall, or Kursaal, in the tradition of European spa towns, and renamed in the wave of anti-German sentiment that followed the first world war. Fox family tribute 2012-02-12T00:06:47Z This was the period of A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo as the real-life first president of Botswana, and second world war teen romance Where Hands Touch. 'Chisholm made Obama possible': director Amma Asante on Mrs America's real star 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Just six days later, the strangest hospital in the history of the first world war was ready for business. Royal treatment 2010-04-18T19:00:00Z In the clip his short back and sides haircut and drab uniform-like shirt hint at a tie-in with Captain America’s second world war super-soldier back story. Avengers: Age of Ultron film trailer released by Marvel after leak 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z When the first world war began in 1914, Australians were big fans of Marmite, the British yeast extract spread. A rose in every cheek: 100 years of Vegemite, the wartime spread that became an Aussie icon 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z After the second world war, Cornwall was briefly the white-hot centre of modern art, spoken of in the same breath as Paris, New York and London. TV review: At Home With the Georgians 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z In the years before and during the first world war artists were fascinated and spooked by the idea of humans as machines. Cy Twombly, Ren? Magritte and Thomas Struth ? the week in art 2011-07-08T16:17:00Z It is an astonishing journey, taking in fine beaches, sunken second world war planes and pristine reefs. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z A second world war sniper-on-two-wheels turned road-racing cyclist is reading a novel written about his life and, in a separate narrative strand, commenting on its inaccuracies and failings. Nicholas Royle's top 10 first novels 2013-02-27T09:00:06Z She was carried to the remote corners of empire as a talisman of English values; hardened soldiers in both world wars hung on to her disabused clear-sightedness. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z He was also inspired by a less likely source: watching AJP Taylor lecture on the origins of the second world war. Simon Callow leaves familiar territory behind in one-man Edinburgh show 2011-08-07T14:42:00Z It is a remarkable story, told with humanity and intelligence; all historians of the second world war will be in Mitter's debt. China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter – review 2013-06-06T11:00:01Z From across the Atlantic, Europe casting the penumbral shadow of a pending world war. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z Well, there is for the more recent event, Winston and the second world war, of course. TV review: The Churchills; Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder – The Big Clear Out 2012-07-26T21:00:03Z He is looking for ammunition from bunkers in the dunes that were blown up after the second world war. New Zeeland: happy returns to the Netherlands coast 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z A cache of press cuttings details the British Army's banning of the Chaplin moustache from the trenches of the first world war. Was Charlie Chaplin a Gypsy? 2011-02-17T22:00:02Z The first world war drama, The Trench, stops off at Harrogate theatre. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-22T14:24:33Z During the second world war he served as a paratrooper, and after it enrolled in the new American University in Biarritz, France. William Windom obituary 2012-08-23T16:01:54Z Had he limited himself to the second world war, he might well have produced a brilliant book. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z Siddon Rock explores the effect of the second world war on a small town on the salt plains of the Mallee, after a nurse who got caught up on the front returns home. Rana Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers' prize 2010-04-12T15:45:00Z The first, Flare Path, opens a season of productions directed by Trevor Nunn at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and is based on Rattigan's own experience as a rear gunner in the second world war. This week's new theatre 2011-02-26T00:07:52Z You know, it's true that nothing lasts forever, even pandemics and world wars. Tony Robbins gets real about success in life and health: 'Just thinking positive is B.S.' 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z He sold it to Sun Alliance Insurance in 1939 and after the second world war it became a centre for modern agricultural engineering research. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z Bomber County movingly places the death of Swift's own grandfather in the context of the poetry of the second world war. First book award shows appetite for serious reading 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z In his latest, Stoppard, 85, writes about a Jewish family in Vienna, following them from 1899 and through two world wars. More Than 60 Plays and Musicals to Take In This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The country where much of the West has been at war for a decade is a recurring leitmotif in Kassel, as are the two world wars, the Vietnam War and other 20th-century conflicts. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z Paul Nash is best-known for his paintings of the desolate landscape of first world war no man's land. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z His father was an accountant who had fought in both world wars; his mother was a homemaker. Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z His work, however, got lost in the chaos of the second world war and wasn’t translated into English until 1990, meaning that, until comparatively recently, Kanner’s view prevailed. The man who wants us to embrace autism 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Ray served in Frank Capra's army film unit in the second world war. John Landis on why Ray Harryhausen's effects are still so special 2010-06-17T20:29:00Z A serious purpose emerges from this: a description of all that has gone wrong, economically, with the nation since the second world war. You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain – review 2013-01-23T07:01:01Z But then the first world war happens, and modernists living in postwar-America start to view literature through a different lens. Moby Dick and gravity: how our understanding of truth evolves 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z She grew up in Belgium but left during the second world war to live in Switzerland, then settled in Paris. Tsilla Chelton obituary 2012-07-22T16:24:34Z It usually hangs on an adjacent wall to James Guthrie's group portrait of the statesmen of the first world war; between them, these two paintings seem to launch the 20th-century galleries. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z The demise of the luxury gift book was one of the minor casualties of the first world war and many illustrators fell on hard times. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z The IWM is scheduled to open fully in summer 2014, coinciding with the centenary events marking the outbreak of the first world war. Life as a US drone operator: 'it's like playing a video game for four years' 2013-07-28T13:25:50Z A commonly cited psychological turning point was the second world war, which engendered what Russell Baker, writing in the New York Times, later described as a kind of “beef madness”. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A Farewell to Arms tells of a love affair between an injured American lieutenant and his nurse, set in the midst and confusion of the first world war. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z Is Scorsese concerned that a younger generation might no longer know enough about the second world war to appreciate the film? Good fellows: Martin Scorsese and Colonel Blimp 2012-10-28T13:00:01Z This year's longlist features fresh writing from around the world, from tales of life in Kashmir and in a 1920s Finnish sanitorium to studies of English Romantic writers and second world war airmen. Competition: Win the Guardian first book award longlist 2010-08-27T14:33:00Z Across the Bosphorus in Üsküdar, the serene Haydarpaşa cemetery is a lesson in British military history, with the graves of Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Crimea and the first and second world wars. 10 of the best ways to enjoy Istanbul on a budget 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z It will also continue Hanks’ relationship with the channel; he produced Band of Brothers, The Pacific and another forthcoming series about the second world war. Tom Hanks to produce HBO dramatic miniseries on 2016 election 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z "Undoubtedly, the first world war would have been lost on the western front without the contribution of the Indian soldiers, and we might not be speaking in freedom now without their sacrifice," Dhillon says. Royal treatment 2010-04-18T19:00:00Z It also acted as an evacuation centre during two world wars. Wilton's Music Hall clears first hurdle on road to £1.6m full restoration 2012-06-28T19:33:32Z Between the end of the first world war and the start of the second, there was a gap of 21 years. Jon Savage on song: The Zombies ? Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) 2011-03-17T09:32:54Z A pencil drawing turns out to be a portrait of Marvin by Marcel Marceau, which he did just after the second world war, before he became famous. Blanche Marvin, 93: ‘I’m never lonely in this house, because I have my life with me’ 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z From before the first world war, jazz's parents – ragtime and the blues – had often provided the soundtrack for the new fashions in social dancing. Dancing on the Edge: what was life really like for black jazz bands in 1930s Britain? 2013-02-04T17:46:28Z You’ll get a strong sense of the island’s military history here too; gun cabinets abound and other memorabilia line the walls, including the names of the 81 men who served in the first world war. 48 hours on Norfolk Island: what to do, where to go 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Hell is a surreal distillation of old second world war films, re-enacted by boy's toys. Why the art of war is hell 2013-07-25T14:36:27Z The first world war, which almost all European nations entered with great jingoistic fervour, following a period of hectic expansion, confirmed these anxieties. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z The Banat, the region where Müller was born, was a German-speaking enclave of the Austro-Hungarian empire split between Romania and Yugoslavia after the first world war. Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z Mitter argues convincingly that the importance of the Sino-Japanese conflict in the second world war is now all too often forgotten. China's War With Japan by Rana Mitter – review 2013-06-30T13:00:01Z But for the most part this is the first world war courtesy of Ikea. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z In 1946, Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing studios, wrote an article in which he contended that the second world war had transformed the sensibility and the habits of the British people. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z Embassy in Islamabad, he's thrust into the middle of a potential world war when a military coup in Pakistan leads to American intervention in the region. Aasif Mandvi bridges East-West gap on 'Daily' basis and now HBO 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z It was a savage deconstruction of the first world war and should be performed again next year as an alternative to the centenary fare we are likely to be fed. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z A conscientious objector, he did not enlist in the armed forces during the second world war. Richard Adeney obituary 2011-01-23T18:31:02Z You specialised in the first world war in your degree. Anna Maxwell Martin: 'Loads of women's drama is really dumbed down' 2013-01-06T00:06:48Z The clue to the name of the country that fought in the second world war, Dr Fox, is in the adjective of your series title. TV review: Show Me The Funny and British Masters 2011-07-18T21:00:01Z His treatment of the military story of the two world wars is succinct almost to the point of cursoriness, but this ground is well-tilled in other books. A grim half-century 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Wright suggests that Darkest Hour, which stars Gary Oldman as the British prime minister during arguably the UK’s most testing period of the second world war, is directly relevant to the US’s current political turmoil. Winston Churchill of Darkest Hour a rebuke to Trump, says film's director 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Was the first world war primarily a British attempt to secure Iraqi oil reserves? Comedy gold: Rob Newman's History of Oil 2013-05-03T14:59:15Z Bespoke period products came into existence shortly after the first world war, when nurses realised that the cellulose-based bandages they were using to dress wounds were better than cotton at absorbing blood. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z It is a second world war story about something with which few war movies concern themselves: the banal and poisonous disgrace of collaboration that the Nazis visited on every corner of the Reich. Cannes 2012: In the Fog – review 2012-05-25T11:04:58Z LONDON.To help commemorate the centenary of the first world war, the relationship between culture and conflict is the broad theme of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, the director Jonathan Mills announced on Tuesday. ArtsBeat: Edinburgh International Festival Announces Lineup 2014-03-18T10:46:06Z Mr Ferguson goes on to describe Mr Kissinger’s intellectual development after the second world war. Ideas man 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z I think it's a bygone era where things just for the very last time seemed ordered and elegant and structured before the chaos of the two world wars. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z On one is Chad, the graffiti figure ubiquitous in London during the second world war. RCA Secret postcards sale 2013: three big names to look out for 2013-03-13T16:06:01Z Young Americans found themselves more than ready to start families and settle down following the lean and tumultuous years of the Depression and the world wars. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z That world was changed by external events: the first world war, the 1916 Easter uprising, the Russian revolution of 1917, and the influenza pandemic of 1918 that killed 50 million people worldwide. How the super rich got richer: 10 shocking facts about inequality 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z The first world war was one of the deadliest conflicts in human . 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z And then, when you think things couldn't get any bleaker, the first world war breaks out. Doctor Who 2013-04-01T09:36:00Z Composed before the first world war, Hugh the Drover notched up two separate productions at Sadler's Wells before vanishing from major stages. Hugh the Drover ? review 2010-11-23T22:40:00Z Stone begins with the second world war, arguing that the allies' eventual victory was a result of Soviet stamina rather than American interventionism. TV highlights 19/04/2013 2013-04-19T06:00:04Z But just as their most popular characters are second world war pilots who talk in 21st-century street slang, so tonight's show feels like comedy performed in the voice of two men who aren't particularly funny. Armstrong and Miller 2010-09-28T21:30:00Z Later this year Hardy will appear in Christopher Nolan’s second world war film Dunkirk. Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott team up for real-life military drama War Party 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Some of his inventions helped America in the second world war: airmen in the Enola Gay observed the nuclear mushroom cloud over Hiroshima through Polaroid goggles. Land of hope and glory 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Michael is shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific and befriends a Japanese man still in hiding after the end of the second world war. Cathy Cassidy's top 10 feel good books 2012-07-19T11:18:35Z A century on, after the destruction wrought by two world wars and the turmoil of communist rule, Gergiev said the music no longer has the power to create the tumult of the premiere. Two "Rites", no riot, expected for Stravinsky centenary 2013-05-29T11:54:22Z It was virtually unknown before the second world war, according to Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. The truth about obesity: 10 shocking things you need to know 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Had Stravinsky had his way, we might also be celebrating his movie soundtracks; but, arriving in Hollywood at the end of the second world war, he couldn't get a break. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-04-14T14:12:00Z His father was a stockbroker, who met Oliver's French mother in Paris during the second world war. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z The theatre was opened by renowned composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1857 and reopened, after extensive restoration, just over a year ago – 75 years after it suffered major damage during a second world war air raid. Inspired by Rimini: a tour of Fellini’s magical home town 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Between the two world wars, antisemitic discourse linked avant-gardism to Judaism, claiming that those modern trends aimed to destroy the principles of classical beauty and eradicate national traditions. From Dada to surrealism - review 2011-07-19T12:59:02Z Earlier this year, in an interview with the New York Times, Brad Pitt recalled his time on the set of the second world war movie Fury. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play with an interval, about deserters in the first world war. Laura Wade on her early play, White Feathers 2013-01-01T17:00:08Z In the 1930s, it was the Leica that brought the Spanish civil war to readers, while the second world war was seen through black-and-white newsreels. Shooting Syria: documentaries from the most dangerous place on earth 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z It is that rare beast: a second world war picture that came out in the middle of the war, when the outcome of the war in Europe was far from clear. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z On the one hand: civil war, world war, economic turmoil. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z For all that, the emotional core of the film lies elsewhere, specifically with the second world war. The King's Speech lays bare the sheer scale of the republican challenge 2011-01-18T21:00:02Z Moritz Thomsen starts his book by saying: "This is a book about my involvement with two outrageous catastrophes – the second world war and my father." Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z He was interned during the last years of the first world war, despite a petition in his defence started by the writer Jerome K Jerome. Portait of a neglected painter: Philip de L?szl?'s works to go on display 2010-03-23T15:44:00Z During the second world war, the area had been a support base for Chinese communist guerrilla resistance to the Japanese occupation of 1942-45. Tash Aw: a life in writing 2013-03-15T08:00:27Z When you look at lists of non-fiction in the UK you see the preoccupation we have with the second world war and the events leading up to it. Samuel Johnson prize longlist spans the globe 2010-04-22T08:33:00Z After serving in France as a gunner in the army during the second world war, Gould studied theatre, gaining a PhD from Cornell University, where he taught drama, speech and literature from 1948 to 1953. Harold Gould obituary 2010-09-20T17:38:00Z Toward the end of the novel, the narrator tries to avenge his parents by firing second world war mortar shells at his mother's lover. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z FrancisBath • How to commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war? Letters: How to commemorate the first world war 2012-10-12T20:00:07Z Jones said Foot did great things for the city, helping to rebuild it after the second world war and representing it passionately as the MP for Devonport in the 1940s and 50s. Michael Foot portrait to be auctioned for Plymouth memorial fund 2013-07-18T21:12:18Z It is this very liberal attitude which attracted many members of the Lost and Beat generations after the second world war, and that still attracts outsider writers such as Dennis Cooper. C?line: great author and 'absolute bastard' 2011-01-31T11:33:28Z She is also sometimes very funny about the hoity-toity English, their obsession with the second world war and the inequity of our society. Ruby Wax: Losing It ? review 2011-02-25T19:34:08Z The collaborations find their origins in oral and written reportage, and in war-time stories from veterans of the world wars and the recent and current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-12-14T22:55:06Z So, too, does the literature of the first and second world wars set in the country. Choose July's Reading Group book 2012-06-26T11:08:44Z Down at Hyde Park there’s the Museum of Science and Industry, which has a second world war U-Boat. 'Everybody knows everybody' – what the blues has given Chicago 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Mary Alvord, a Maryland-based psychologist, likened the pandemic to the second world war because “when you go to war, it’s sort of across the board”. ‘The most stressful time ever’: how coronavirus affects children’s mental health 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z He made a directorial comeback with the second world war drama Hacksaw Ridge, which began shooting in Australia last September. Mel Gibson to present an award at the Golden Globes 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z After the first world war it was Polish. A brief survey of the short story part 30: Bruno Schulz 2010-12-03T10:09:00Z During the first world war Herbert, who was not fit enough to fight, was involved in the management of a factory producing military uniforms in Calcutta, India, where Raphael was born. Raphael Loewe obituary 2011-08-04T18:00:49Z When Leonard was in hospital during the second world war he befriended a young nurse, Elizabeth. The secret sister my father kept hidden 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z I’m terrified there might be a world war, because so many people are unhappy with the way things are. Happy birthday, Gen Z: celebrating with 16-year-olds around the world 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z He would sit with one leg – badly damaged in the second world war – stretched out, somewhat crumpled in his chair, hands pushing his hair to a standing position. Raphael Loewe obituary 2011-08-04T18:00:49Z During the second world war, he joined the US navy, where he designed posters while continuing to design for Columbia at night. Alex Steinweiss obituary 2011-08-05T17:07:37Z By contrast, Fireflies follows siblings struggling to survive the second world war with unsentimental realism. The Hangover Part III, Something In The Air, Epic 3D: this week's new films 2013-05-25T05:00:09Z "You can't fully appreciate his work without understanding the context of two world wars and the Holocaust and so on." Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z It was only in the years between the two world wars — when Mao Zedong’s Communists and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists were battling for control — that the Opium War became a handy propaganda tool. Books: Highlighting Differences in Interpretations of the Opium War 2011-08-18T15:14:28Z The Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were in decline before the first world war; the US, Germany and Russia were on the rise. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z A complication of second world war counter-history, as Sansom acknowledges in an afterword, is that depictions of a German victory involve fingering historical British figures as Nazi collaborators. Dominion by CJ Sansom – review 2012-12-06T06:30:01Z The Diary of a Young Girl charts Frank's life as a Jewish teenager in hiding during the second world war. Bid to censor Anne Frank's 'pornographic' diary in schools fails 2013-05-16T10:48:24Z The government is remaining neutral on the questions of how to commemorate Waterloo and how to mark the centenary of the first world war. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z Another favourite of mine, Scott Westerfeld, whose ear for invented language is usually sound, grated on me a bit with Leviathan, a steampunk alternate history of events leading into the first world war. The curse of swearing in children's books 2010-09-08T13:07:00Z Second world war propaganda film, based on a Graham Greene short story, dealing with German paratroopers who invade a British village. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-07-22T23:07:08Z After the second world war, many Japanese soldiers and farmers that had been stationed in occupied China returned home. Chow mein and chips: a brief history of the British Chinese takeaway 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z During the second world war he joined the New Zealand Division, serving as a radio operator in the Pacific, Middle East and Europe, where he also managed to attend art classes in Florence. Don Peebles obituary 2010-05-02T17:23:00Z Before the first world war, the threat of becoming "unsexed" was used against the suffragettes, scaring some women into joining the Anti-Suffrage League founded in 1908 by the novelist Mrs Humphry Ward. Why women fight women 2012-11-27T19:40:01Z In 1956, for the Manchester Guardian, she helped break the news that French forces were secretly attacking Egypt during the so-called Suez Canal crisis that threatened to start a world war. Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z By his definition of peace — the absence of a conflagration on the scale of the two world wars — we are now at half a century and counting. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z He went to the local grammar school and joined the Royal Artillery towards the end of the second world war. Paul Foote obituary 2011-04-05T17:45:40Z His sense of invincibility was forged while battling to recover from polio as a teenager, then serving as a young officer in the South Pacific during the second world war. Ben Bradlee: the ground-breaking editor who helped bring down Nixon 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Born in South Shields just before the second world war, Scott is a self-made man and non-believer, who progressed from grammar school to art college and so to Soho. Ridley Scott on making blockbusters: ‘It is bloody brain surgery!’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z When he signed up to fight in the first world war, all the lads in his regiment thought he was Irish as he had a thick unruly mop of auburn hair. Family life 2013-03-23T07:15:01Z It makes an eloquent and poetic case for the nationalisation that went on after the second world war under the socialist Attlee government of 1945-1951. Trailer Trash 2013-01-20T00:04:06Z However, after the boxing thriller Killer’s Kiss, and the clever, twisty noir The Killing, Kubrick broke into Hollywood with the social-issue first world war picture Paths of Glory. Stanley Kubrick: film's obsessive genius rendered more human 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z It would take another generation and a second world war for Americans to start playing the same game. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “You Feel It Just Below the Ribs” is set in the world of their podcast: an alternate 20th century shaped by the Great Reckoning, a decades-long world war “driven by nationalist identity crises.” Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z They compete for thumping length with Winston Churchill's multi-volume chronicle of the second world war. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z And just like the proud human rights framework we now treasure, his fascination with totalitarianism was also inspired by the second world war. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z And British concerns to stop any particular country dominating the continent were at the root of the Napoleonic wars and, a century later, both world wars. Historians and Brexit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Second world war spy stories sometimes give the impression that the war was fought not just half a century ago, but in another universe altogether. The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley – review 2012-08-03T21:55:03Z In one season, the plot revolved around refugees in Japan after the third and fourth world wars. The Live-Action Birth of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Channel 4 The principal tales of the second world war are familiar, but the vastness and scope of the conflict means there is an almost inexhaustible supply to draw on. BBC Election 70 2010-10-09T05:45:00Z Oldest son Roman Taylor struggles to keep his family's small farm afloat as the area heals from a devastating world war. Joe Cornish to direct graphic novel adaptation Rust 2012-07-12T12:21:22Z The first world war ended right when it looked like he would be drafted. America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z When they met as Moscow university students before the second world war, they were the same age but not at all the same in background. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z Self-taught and working before and after the first world war, Smith mastered early microscopic, time-lapse and underwater photography with contraptions he fashioned from Meccano, candlewicks and gramophone needles. Small wonders: the tiny world of F Percy Smith 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The poster commissioned to help recruit women to work during the second world war. Rosie the Riveter leaves a strong legacy 2011-01-03T16:34:01Z |
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