(approximately $5.8 trillion in 2023 dollars when adjusted forinflation). Nearly one-third of all homes inGreat BritainandPolandwere damaged or destroyed, as were roughly one-fifth of those inFrance,Belgium, theNetherlands, andYugoslavia. InGermany’s 49 largest cities, nearly 40 percent of ...
Within a couple months it had gone into four printings both in the United States and in Great Britain. In 1937, one of Hollywood�s biggest directors, Josef von Sternberg, made a failed attempt at filming Graves�s epic, a failure that only enhanced the book�s growing prestige. ...