WWII
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And then in 2024 he masterminded the Kursk attack -- the first sustained foreign incursion into Russia since WWII.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
The charge was rescinded after Denmark was liberated from Nazi Germany after WWII.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Everything about this ambitious, sweeping epic feels precisely calibrated, revealing the story of a Hungarian architect immigrating to America after WWII, a man chasing the American dream and finding it elusive and poisonous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
After WWII, he worked as an accountant for Shell and BP before retiring in 1972.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
The tabloids waxed nostalgic for the good old days of WWII, when the enemy all spoke a foreign language and the army went somewhere else to fight.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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