In the Rape of Nanking the killing was concentrated within a few weeks.当然,20世纪以来用于大规模杀戮的工具获得了充分发展,希特勒杀害了600万犹太人,然而该数字是在几年之内累积而成的,日军对南京人的屠杀则集中在几个星期之内。Indeed, even by the standards of history’s most destructive war, the ...
Sugar Hallby Tiffany Murray: Post-war Welsh-English border. Country estate. One terrifying ghost. Tiffany Murray is an excellent storyteller. I may never forgive her for the moth thing though. Aby André Alexis: A book reviewer from Toronto obsessed with an elusive poet tracks him down in an...
his most productive decade, he wrote several novels about his native California, includingTortilla Flat(1935), set in Monterey;In Dubious Battle(1936), about fruit-pickers on strike in a California valley; andOf Mice and Men(1937), set on a ranch in Soledad, southeast of Steinbeck’s birth...
While on the face of it he may not have seen active service in the Second World War, he did serve 41 years including two world wars, and rise from Boy Shipwright to an Engineer Lieutenant-Commander. Henry Southcott Burge was born in Portsmouth on 2 September 1884. He joined the Royal ...
Arab countries comprise communities and groups that are socially and linguistically diverse and different in size and prevalence. They have lived with rich manifestations of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) that have interacted through history and continue to interact with the political, social, economi...
One of those times came during the First World War. As First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill pushed the idea of attacking Gallipoli in 1915, held by Germany's ally Turkey, to open up a supply route to Russia. It was hoped the Russians would then mount offensives in the east and relie...
The League of Nations was formed as a direct result of the war. While many timeless stories have been written about the events that took place in the war, this list focuses on perhaps the best WWI fictional novels. Most divisive: In Pale Battalions Over 600 Ranker voters have...
In his 1855 essay “The Critic at Chess,” McCune Smith described another way that people of African origin contributed to the arts, highlighting an example in which he believed Congolese warriors influenced white European literature. He perceived the rhythm and structure of a Congolese war chant...
in June 1941 and given joint responsibility with the war department in theto develop anatomic bomb. After four years of intensive and ever-mounting research and development efforts, an atomic device was set off on July 16, 1945, in a desert area near Alamogordo,New Mexico, generating an ...
Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 28, 1937, to May 10, 1940, whose name is identified with the policy of ‘appeasement’ toward Adolf Hitler’s Germany in the period immediately preceding World War II. Learn more about Ch