Sentences with phrase «war novels of»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Roger Scruton makes the novel claim that «The emergence of the welfare state was therefore a more or less inevitable result of popular democracy under the impact of total war.»

Unsurprisingly, Churchill ended up befriending H.G.Wells who authored the novel about a British alien invasion, The War of the Worlds.

It's an American penned story (Max Brooks, of the award winning novel World War Z) and helmed by China's greatest director, Yimou Zhang (the mind behind the spectacle of the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony).

The willingness of four thousand colonists to fight a war against the king rested on justifications both novel and familiar to any good Englishman.

«True Grit» may be last novel of the War of Northern Aggression and must be seen as such to understand the ingenious nuance written into this superb drama.

In its external form For the Sake of Heaven is a historical novel built around the conflicts of two Hasidic communities during the Napoleonic wars.

According to the «biblical prophecies» on which the novels are based, the Antichrist will support a Russian invasion of Israel, rebuild the Jerusalem temple, and lead nation into war against nation.

Few of the novel's readers will be surprised to learn that in 1939, White, boarding with an Irish family, mad with fear of impending war and in the grip of drunkenness, came very close to seeking reception into the Church.

It is also a historical fiction novel that is based on the events of the Battle of Waterloo at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Webb, too, would earn honors in Vietnam, and he would become a best - selling author (a novel about the Vietnam War, Fields of Fire) and secretary of the Navy in the first Bush Administration.

In a diary and in the pages of a never - finished novel found in a cardboard box deep in the bowels of the University of North Carolina Library Archives, Haynes wrote of the commonalities between war and football.

Set in California during the Vietnam War, this evocative novel is a moving portrait of a young man trying to overcome the limits set for him by prejudice and poverty.

On what grounds may an intellectual comment on or criticize, say, the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict or the Iraq War if his or her written oeuvre hitherto consists of novels or histories of a provincial character?

David TaylorCritic, novelist and Orwell biographerI've always found it diffi cult to view 1984 outside the context of the four novels Orwell wrote in the decade before the World War II - Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep The Aspidistra Flying and Coming Up For Air.

One Community One Book - The «One Community One Book» selection for May 2018 is Ernest Hemingway's moving and beautiful novel of love and war in World War I Itawar in World War I ItaWar I Italy.

As you probably know, he came up with the idea of Newspeak in this novel Nineteen Eighty - Four with the cult slogans «War is peace», «Freedom is slavery» and «Ignorance is strength» which were used in this fictional world to manipulate public opinion.

Wounded, by Emily Mayhew: Beautifully written, this harrowing trip to the trenches of World War I tells one of medicine's most pivotal chapters with the pace and tension of a novel.

In a new study, UC Santa Barbara marine biologists applied existing technology in a novel way to monitor animals coming into and going out of a lagoon via a deep channel dredged during World War II.

Since the novel was for the first time published in 1961, it precedes Star Wars» Tatooine planet (1977) in terms of the first case of a circumbinary planet in pop culture.

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The episode was meant to be a retelling of the events of H. G. Well's novel, The War of the Worlds.

You want to give someone an idea of your personality, not make them read a War and Peace sized novel.

Coming out in the wake of a flurry of fact - inspired (if not fact - based) World War II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the wWar II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the warwar.

The novel is presumably set in the early 1990s, since Behrani refers in his narration (he and Kathy alternate as narrators in the first two - thirds of the book) to the recent Persian Gulf War.

For his second novel, Uris wrote The Angry Hills, dealing with the British campaign in Greece during World War II and based on the diary of an uncle of his who had been a member of the Palestine Brigade.

By 2006, when Max Brooks published his novel «World War Z» (from which the movie is very loosely adapted), the worst has already happened: the zombies have been vanquished, but only after destroying a good bit of the world's population.

One of the problems «World War Z» has faced all along is that it looks like a high - concept zombie - apocalypse movie (adapted from Max Brooks» novel, told as a series of first - person accounts) but it's really something we don't see that often these days, an old - fashioned Hollywood star picture.

Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century.

An emotionally scarred fifty - something female, a high - profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident - cum - Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran who all formed an unbreakable bond while help prisoner in a World War II concentration camp reunite for the first time in forty years on the peaceful grounds of a renovated pastoral farm in Jefferson Lewis's adaptation of internationally acclaimed author Matt Cohen's popular novel.

In this low budget fantasy adventure from Britain, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs» 1918 science fiction novel, a German submarine holding American prisoners of war during World War I, veers off courwar during World War I, veers off courWar I, veers off course.

Adapted by Philip Dunne from the novel by Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstacy is the story of the 16th century war of wills between Renaissance artist Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and «warrior pope» Julius II (Rex Harrison).

When his films weren't moneymakers they were huge prestige successes, and most of them courted «dangerous» subject matter — war crimes, the nuclear stalemate, a novel deemed un-filmable.

Tom Cruise stars in an adaptation of Kosinski's own graphic novel, set in the year 2073 when Earth is mostly abandoned after being devastated by war.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

When Jason Matthews's best - selling spy thriller novel Red Sparrow debuted in 2013, the CIA gave it a glowing review in an official statement, toasting the former agent - turned - author's ability to convey accurately the stomach - churning tension a spy feels when covering tracks to protect sources and win the war of intelligence.

Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year - old Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) has been left in a respected New York City boarding school while her British father heads overseas to fight.

Synopsis: Adaptation of the Pierre Bouelle novel about POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors.

After enlisting, Salinger experiences the horrors of war across the battlefields of Europe, where he begins to pen what would become his iconic novel, The Catcher in the Rye — a work that would forever change the country and its author.