A number of MBL
's stories deal with the damage inflicted by war. The Molotov
Bread Basket in What of the Night describes the effects of blast, which can kill without maiming, as MBL
had...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Evelyn Waugh
The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church
, which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with...
Timeline
23 August 1939: Hitler's and Stalin's German-Soviet non-aggression...
National or international item
23 August 1939
Hitler
's and Stalin
's German-Soviet non-aggression pact was signed by foreign ministers Ribbentrop
and Molotov
.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
25
Marples, David. “Far From Quiet on the Eastern Front”. Ideas, University of Alberta, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, p. 6.
6
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
108
April 1956: Nikita Khrushchev made another important...
National or international item
April 1956
Nikita Khrushchev
made another important speech reflecting a change in Soviet opinion about the legacy of Joseph Stalin
.
Anderson, Perry. “The Age of EJH”. London Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2002, pp. 3-7.
