World War II started when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, which resulted in France and Great Britain declaring war on Germany. It was not on the deadliest and biggest war in history, but also involved over 30 countries. The conflict lasted between 1939 and 1945 and all major countries were p...
World War I poetry responded to the conflict on a scale previously unseen and reflected a time when soldier-poets wrote verses in the thousands. Some of the early poets wrote about the abstract rhetoric of honor, while later poets, especially those engaged in trench warfare, wrote about tragedy...
And nothing go off. It's pleasant, here at the mill, With only your time to kill... ~Mark Van Doren, "Reverie After War: 1866," Spring Thunder and Other Poems, 1924 Peace is the short interval when nations toil to pay the costs of past and future wars. ~Herbert V. Prochnow The...
As part of my work as a reference archivist at Library and Archives Canada (LAC), I often find myself delving into the many documents in the Second World War collection. Many people around the world are interested in the history of Canadians in this conflict and, more specifically, in the...
It was hoped by many that World War I, being anunprecedentedconflict in its scope, would be “the war to end all wars,” and that Armistice Day would therefore serve as an eternal warning never to repeat the past. The arrival ofWorld War II, however, tragically complicated that view and...
Corresponding Author: Rafael Campo, MA, MD (JamaPoems@jamanetwork.org). Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Campo receives royalties from WW Norton, Duke University Press, and Arte Público Press from the sale of books of original poetry and essays. References 1. Foote F. Rocket strike ...
Cliff Burns has been a professional author since 1985, with 15 books and scores of published short stories, essays, reviews and poems to his credit. He lives in western Canada with his wife, artist and educator Sherron Burns. He also writes the Beautiful Desolation blog. The Poppy Factory,...
conflict about putting a boy’s life at risk with (arguably) the riskiest step in the process, he doesn’t seem waiver. At the trials he’s outraged about the panel’s insistence on “just the facts.” He wants to freely and fully tell the story of Mauthausen, and they – like ...
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With the number of cast and crew reaching an unprecedented scale of more than 12,000, the movie re-creates the serious conflict on the Korean Peninsula amid the extremely cold winter of 1950, when temperatures decreased to the lowest level in 50 years. The movie’s production involved more ...