The configuration of the war at sea in the popular memory of the Second World War has been relatively neglected. In particular, historians have overlooked the division between the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy. Yet portrayals of the two navies differed widely. Maritime films both during and...
This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the wa...
Roll of Honour of all the men during the Second World War, who died while serving with the London Irish Rifles Honours and Awards during the Second World War Guide to Second World War Medals Films tracing the journey of 38th (Irish) Brigade from Algiers to Villach Listen to Dennis Mulqueen...
Cuban Warpresspublic opinionCuban Independence War of 1985 was a milestone in Communication History because it was the first one to cross the battlefield and diplomatic offices lines to dueling in Press. Any approach to this conflict requires references to the role played by major American headers...
This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the wa...
The eastern front was a zone of conflict in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the Second World War, in which the German army along with its allies engaged the armies to its east. Notable Second World War battles fought on the eastern front include the battle of Moscow, Operation ...
Most of her inventions were not widely used, but in the 1940s she wanted to create something that would help Allied forces fight the Nazis as part of the second world war – Lamarr, born to a Jewish family in Austria, fled to the US after the country was annexed by Germany in 1938....
This chapter considers the ways in which British/English films about the Second World War, especially those focused on the home front, have deployed the landscape imagery as an iconographic element of a discourse invariably bound up with issues of national identity. The Lion Has Wings, In Which...
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played the piano and he became a piano-playing童谣(喜剧演员).Then when the Second World War started, he managed to run from Denmark and he went to the US. He had only \$20 in his pocket and he spoke no English at all. 40 Then he changed his name to Victor Borisoff started doing...