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Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"As the first of many books to commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of Armistice Day 1918, this volume sets an example that will be hard to equal... Reading it is like looking into a photograph album full of vivid snaps of the world taken during a week of high tension, crisis, celebration, tragedy, and illusion." --Daily Mail (UK)
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
The story of about three million soldiers who fought a war, no longer remembering the reason, and died, wishing for the end of it, while negotiations for peace remained unresolved for 25 months since June 1951. It is estimated that the Korean War left four million dead. The war continued for 37 months, and the armistice negotiations continued for two years and two months during the war. The entire military force was concentrated in a battle for the...
6) Bloodtide
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c1999
Description
Two ruthless gangs of warlords fight over the bombed-out remains of the city of London, until a truce is suggested by the patriarch of the Volson clan, who offers his fourteen-year-old daughter's hand to his blood rival.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Werner Herzog, one of the most revered filmmakers of all time, in his first book in many years, tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who continued to defend a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War Two In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts there asked, whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically...
10) Joyeux Noel
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
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