Sentences with phrase «many war novels»

«When we manually looked into the accounts, we noticed that [their tweets were] just random quotations from Star Wars novels,» says Zhou.

This original film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow, finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.

An adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's American Civil War novel, the movie is set at a girls» school in Virginia, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.

Lenny Abrahamson will direct the big screen adaptation of Laird Hunt's critically acclaimed American Civil War novel Neverhome.

Gary Oldman stars as George Smiley, a retired spy brought back into British intelligence to try to root out a Soviet mole, in this adaptation of John le Carré's 1974 cold - war novel.

In fact, it might just be his worst movie to date — an adaptation of Ben Fountain's 2012 satirical war novel that's plagued by some really stilted dialogue and acting, as well as a number of awful subplots that go nowhere.

Fry's Star Wars novels have included several titles aimed at young adults, but he is perhaps better known for his guides that touch on nearly every aspect of the Star Wars Universe, from expansive encyclopedias to deep - dives on era - specific vehicles.

His newest book is Crossing the Dead Line, a Civil War novel.

This book is a must - read for anyone with an interest in war novels.

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line.

After finishing a sequence of five Cold War novels, I wanted to get out of the past and take on something contemporary.

«Readers and fans have been asking for the Star Wars novels to be made available digitally, and we're excited that we can finally make this happen,» said Howard Roffman, President of Lucas Licensing.

Most of these books will have an updated Star Wars novel timeline, to give you a sense of the history of the expanded universe.

A wide - ranging Civil War novel based on the true story of a Union raid into Alabama.

In the Pulitzer prize - winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies.

One could easily be forgiven for consigning Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series to the war novel genre, or perhaps even historical fiction, but the simple fact is that Kerr crafts some of the finest mystery novels in contemporary fiction, noir classics set against the multiple backdrops of WWII's far - reaching stages.

Though the words belong to black, 17 - year - old Richie Perry, they merely echo the thoughts of all the characters in this gut - twisting Vietnam War novel that breaks uncharted ground in teenage fiction.

Coming on the heels of two other Iraq War novels, the powerful Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and the blackly comic Fobbit (both 2012), is this first novel by a former soldier.

Though originally not well - received, it turned the genre of the war novel on its head with its black comedy and anti-heroism.

In his early Cold War novels, John le Carré referred to something called «Moscow Rules»: the tradecraft used by spies in a hostile city when they had to be super-cautious to avoid getting caught.

While not a war novel per se, Pasulka's...

Former slaves have stayed on to work the land in this post — Civil War novel.

Johnson is best known for his Vietnam War novel Tree of Smoke and short story collection Jesus» Son.

A war novel with a voice all its own, this will stand as one of the definitive rendering of the Iraq experience.»

Many war novels feel unbearably long and depressing, but Barry is a master of the condensed narrative, covering 15 years or more in just 260 pages and all along alternating between brutality and optimism.

Eventually, when I have a third Usurper's War novel, Acts of War will follow as a permafree as well.

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If I can write an apoclyptic, magical realist literary war novel featuring a tiger, I'm guessing you can write a steamlamp fantasy romance set in an alternate India.

He told me they were looking for someone to do a new war novel, American p.o.v. I got in touch, landed the job, and never looked back.

Star Wars novels never appealed to a broader audience than existing Star Wars fans, Harry Potter contributed little of value to the game space, and Clancy never brought anything to the table that was appealing to kids or families (though that's probably a wise omission).

That said, the Star Wars novels and the Potter games were financial successes - and that's the point I am trying to make.

Martha Wells, author of the Star Wars novel Razor's Edge, wrote fan fiction before she signed on to pen a novel about Princess Leia.

The exhibition include «Amerika the Stoker» (1993), «The Red Badge of Courage» (1990) and «The River (after Duke Ellington)» (2012) works, responding to Franz Kafka's Amerika, which recounts the tale of a young immigrant shipped off to America by his parents; the American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane; and American composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington, respectively.

According to Finkel, «a personal sense of crisis» brought on by the current political climate in the U.S. pervades Tomorrow is Another Day, which was named after the last line of Margaret Mitchell's epic Civil War novel Gone with the Wind.

These images portray the coastline and wildlife of the Sea of Cortez, the location for the Hollywood version of Joseph Heller's satirical war novel, as it stood on the brink between isolation and urban development brought on by production of the film.

JOCELYN GREEN is a former military wife and the award - winning author of multiple books, including Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement for Military Wives and Stories of Faith and Courage from the Home Front, which inspired her Civil War novels, Wedded to War and Widow of Gettysburg.

Not exact matches

The Like function has saved me so much comment - typing over the years that I likely could have written a very quippy, War - and - Peace - length novel by now.»

«I really enjoyed this fast - paced novel that focuses on strong but flawed female protagonists set in two different time periods: World War I and post-World War II,» says «pricing geek» Casey Brown.

What is interesting here is not simply that the everyday language of «a fine day» is determined by a set of new - fangled scientific abstractions, but also the fact that a novel written after the war dares to inhabit the virtual outlook of before.

That's because in the world of Amazon's series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the Axis powers won World War II and occupied America, where a scrappy resistance movement is taking shape.

While «Catcher» is perhaps the defining literary treatment of conformity and alienation in post-war American society, Salinger had actually been working on the novel during the war.

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It is not uncommon for readers of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's final novel, The Red Wheel, to draw comparisons with another Russian masterpiece, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

One sees this most clearly in Sword of Honour, his novel about one man's disillusionment while fighting World War II.

One of the most remarkable of Williams's novels is War in Heaven, in which the Holy Grail, spelt inevitably Graal, is found in the sacristy cupboard of an English country church.

Like Sir Walter Scott's historical novels, it takes place amidst events events that changed the course of human affairs, in this case, World War I, but remains vividly focused on one character's fate.

Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor to this month's magazine) is like going back to the great works of the 19th century.

Moreover, how is it possible to read the reference to «the power of modern means of destruction» without recalling the role of this judgment in leading to the novel idea of a presumption against war?

The intellectual and practical challenge, however, is clear: to retain the core moral elements of the just war tradition, even as we acknowledge that they must be rethought, adapted and extended to cover our genuinely novel strategic situation.

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly:: A big thick novel about three intersecting stories of women in World War II is pretty much irresistible to me.