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All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'In the West Nothing New') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I.
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- Quiet, known to the Soviet forces as Tixij (Russian: тихий, Quiet), was a female assassin during the 1980s. Originally an assassin for XOF, Quiet later defected to Diamond Dogs after being defeated by Venom Snake.
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All Quiet on the Western Front  (1930 film) All Quiet on the Western Front (Scots: Aw Quiet on the Wastren Front) is a 1930 American epic Pre-Code war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novelle o the same name. ↑ 1  All Quiet on the Western Front, afi.com; accessed March 24, 2014. ↑  Box Office Information for All Quiet on the Western Front, Box Office Mojo; retrieved April 13, 2012.
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Writing the World: Leo Tolstoy and 'War and Peace' Russian author and journalist Isaak Babel famously wrote that “if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.” Where did this imposing book come from? It arose from circumstances both ordinary and unusual. Today Bio looks at the story behind the writing of War and Peace. A New Life, A New Novel. When Tolstoy dipped pen into inkwell in the summer of 1863 to start his new novel, he had already achieved a prominent position in Russia’s literary community.
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- Bambi: A Life in the Woods was written in Vienna, Austria in 1923 by Felix Salten. America in 1928 where it was translated into English. and his fight to survive in a world where “Man” is always present as a source of danger. rights to Salten’s book were bought by Sidney Franklin of MGM Studios.
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Isaiah Berlin 1 Sir Isaiah Berlin-May He Rest in Peace. 2  A tribute to Isaiah Berlin & A conversation with Isaiah Berlin on The Philosopher's Zone, ABC, 6 & 13 June 2009. 3  Isaiah Berlin and the history of ideas.part from earlier editions of Karl Marx and The Hedgehog and the Fox, and Unfinished Dialogue, all publications listed from 1978 onwards are edited by Henry Hardy, and all but Karl Marx are compilations or transcripts of lectures, essays, and letters. Details given are of first and latest UK editions.
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War and Peace War and Peace (pre-reform Russian: война́ и миръ (War and Society); post-reform Russian: война́ и мир, translit. Voyná i mir [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements.
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Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque. Erich Maria Remarque (22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970), born Erich Paul Remark, was a German novelist who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), about German soldiers in the First World War, was made into an Oscar-winning movie. His book made him an enemy of the Nazis, who burned many of his works.
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The Very Last Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured on Video 103 years ago today (November 20), Leo Tolstoy, who gave us two major classics in the Russian tradition, Anna Karenina and War & Peace, died at Astapovo, a small, remote train station in the heart of Russia. Pneumonia was the official cause.
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- The Sound of Silence  is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel.The song was written by Paul Simon over the period of several months between 1963–1964.he Sound of Silence  is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel.
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- Most popular with the peace and isolationist organizations were All Quiet on the Western Front and Broken Lullaby (Paramount, 1931), later re-titled The Man I Killed, which emphasized sorrow rather than action and centered on the guilt of a French poilu, who personally killed a German soldier and then tried after the war to atone to the dead man's ...
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The Scent of Rain in the Balkans The Scent of Rain in the Balkans (Serbian: мирис кише на балкану, Miris Kiše na Balkanu) is a historical novel written by Gordana Kuić. The novel was published in 1986, becoming an instant bestseller.[1] It centers on the Salom family, most notably five sisters — Buka, Nina, Klara, Blanki and Riki.
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- Preview — The Quiet American by Graham Greene. The Quiet American. I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused, Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous Quiet American of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career.
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Edward Thomas (poet) The inscription, written by fellow poet Wilfred Owen, reads: My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.. Thomas was described by British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes as the father of us all.. At least nineteen of his poems were set to music by the Gloucester composer Ivor Gurney.
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William Manchester Manchester also wrote of World War II in several other books, including the first and second volumes and much of the third volume of the three-part biography, The Last Lion, of Winston Churchill, and a biography of General Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar.
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Most Secret War Most Secret War by Victor Jones. 1  Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War. In Most Secret War he details how Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their intelligence at every turn. He tells of the 'battle of the beams'; detecting and defeating flying bombs; using chaff to confuse radar; and many other ingenious ideas and devices.
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The Soldier (poem) The Soldier is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth of a series of poems entitled 1914. It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen 's 1917 antiwar poem Dulce Et Decorum Est. The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge.
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War and Peace War and Peace in Culture. (1865–1869) A novel by Leo Tolstoy. It recounts the history of several Russian families during the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte. Many consider it the greatest novel ever written.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four The Last Man in Europe was an early title for the novel but in a letter dated 22 October 1948 to his publisher Fredric Warburg, eight months before publication, Orwell wrote about hesitating between The Last Man in Europe and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Warburg suggested changing the main title to a more commercial one.
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- A German Republic was declared and peace feelers extended to the Allies. At 5 AM on the morning of November 11 an armistice was signed in a railroad car parked in a French forest near the front lines. The terms of the agreement called for the cessation of fighting along the entire Western Front to begin at precisely 11 AM that morning.
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- All Quiet on the Western Front Questions and Answers The Question and Answer section for All Quiet on the Western Front is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. All Quiet on the Western Front Assessment Question
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The Good Soldier The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford.It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends.he novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life. The novel’s original title was The Saddest Story, but after the onset of World War I, the publishers asked Ford for a new title. Ford suggested (sarcastically) The Good Soldier, and the name stuck.
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Isle of Innisfree Isle of Innisfree is the principal musical theme of the film The Quiet Man (1952). It features in Steven Spielberg's film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) when the famous kissing scene between John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man is shown.n a chapter entitled Richard Farrelly and The Isle of Innisfree of his book Picture The Quiet Man, Professor Des MacHale wrote: It is one of the finest and most beautiful melodies ever written, ranking in the opinion of many, right beside Danny Boy and no greater praise is possible.
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peace (See also. .). all quiet on the Potomac A period of peace during a war; any time marked by the absence of fighting or quarreling. This expression (now used ironically or humorously) is generally thought to have originated and gained currency during the Civil War.ll quiet on the Potomac A period of peace during a war; any time marked by the absence of fighting or quarreling. This expression (now used ironically or humorously) is generally thought to have originated and gained currency during the Civil War.
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The Quiet American  (2002 film) The Quiet American (2002 film) The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel of the same name. It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen.
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Civilization and Its Discontents Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. Written in 1929, and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (The Uneasiness in Culture). It is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works.