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3 giorni fa · Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy—comprising Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and The End of the Battle [originally published in England as Unconditional Surrender]—was published between 1952 and 1961. It deserves to be known as the finest work of fiction to come out of World War II.
31 mag 2024 · Several far-better known and experienced reviewers than I have written on Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honor Trilogy, noting the resemblance of its major romantic sub-plot to the prophet Hosea while at the same time generally consigning the majority of the military misadventures, the bulk of the story, to the waste bin as, at most, an amusing distraction from the Hosea plot and, at worst, a ...
23 mag 2024 · In a trilogy—Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and Unconditional Surrender (1961)—he analyzed the character of World War II, in particular its relationship with the eternal struggle between good and evil and the temporal struggle between civilization and barbarism.
1 giorno fa · His mission that fateful day is described in the opening passages of Cornelius Ryan’s epic novel The Longest Day. Little did Allan Maxwell realize at the time that the events of that day would culminate on May 8 of the following year with the end of the European war following the unconditional surrender of Nazis forces.
1 giorno fa · His mission that fateful day is described in the opening passages of Cornelius Ryan’s epic novel The Longest Day. Little did Allan Maxwell realize at the time that the events of that day would culminate on May 8 of the following year with the end of the European war following the unconditional surrender of Nazis forces.
24 mag 2024 · And what the Allied war aim of unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan meant for civilians in Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Follow this author George F. Will 's opinions
1 giorno fa · On 18 and 20 July 1945, Ambassador Sato cabled to Foreign Minister Togo, strongly advocating that Japan accept an unconditional surrender provided that the U.S. preserved the imperial house (keeping the emperor). On 21 July, in response, Togo rejected the advice, saying that Japan would not accept an unconditional surrender under any circumstance.
