Czesław Miłosz (30 June, 1911 – 14 August, 2004) was a poet, writer and translator from Poland. Books by Czesław Miłosz* 1) Originally born under the flag of the Russian Empire, the village of Szetejnie is now part of Lithuania. 2) During World War II, Mr. Miłosz was in Warsaw, which was ruled by Nazi Germany. 3) After the war, Mr. Miłosz was appointed as Poland’s cultural attaché to Washington DC and Paris. 4) In 1951 Mr. Miłosz defected to the West. In 1970 he because a US citizen. 5) Mr. Miłosz’s book The Captive Mind (1953), a study on how intellectuals behave under totalitarian governments, is a staple in political science course. 6) In 1978 he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and in 1980 the Nobel Prize in Literature. 7) Books and works by the author where banned in his home country of Poland, the first time many Poles heard of him was when he won the Noble Prize. 8) Mr. Miłosz is recognized in 1989 as a Righteous Among the Nations in Yad Vashem, Israel for his role in helping four Jews escape Warsaw during World War II. 9) After his death, protesters in Kraków, Poland threatened to disrupt his funeral because he was an “anti-Polish, anti-Catholic, and had signed a petition supporting gay and lesbian…
Monticello is a well written and meticulously researched book told from the point of view on Martha
I enjoyed the mythology which the writer incorporated in the first story, actually is based very much on mythology.
I simply feel that the James Bond series should have gotten a much stronger finish than two short stories and two outlines for short stories.
Irvin S. Cobb (23 June, 1876 – 11 March, 1944) was a prolific American humorist, columnist and author.
The characters, they are complex and three dimensional, as I mentioned none are “good” and none are “evil”, but complex human beings trying to stay alive and working for their own best interest.
A Chain of Thunder (Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater #2) by Jeff Shaara takes place in and around Vicksburg, Mississippi during the American Civil War.
A recurring theme in her books were the effects of alcoholism on families.
The book is still one of the smartest, self-contained graphic novels I have read
Being embedded with American troops is no joke, as he soon finds out