3. key figures
• USA: winston churchill- prime minister of britain during most of
wwii, active in resisting german aggression and assembled allied powers
• GERMANY: adolf hitler-self-proclaimed leader of germany from
1933 until suicide in 1945,made military decisions and condemned jews
to death
• RUSSIAN: joseph stalin- general secretary of soviet union, responsible
for USSR’s losses, failed to heed warnings of advisors and did not allow
russian military prepare proper defence; held country together and
inspired resistance against germans (stalin VS western allies)
5. key works
• john hawke’s the cannibal told in a surrealistic fashion, shows the horrors
of early German Imperialism and the defeat of 1918. One of the first examples of postmodern literature
• John hersey’s a bell for adano winner of the 1945 Pulitzer price, written in 1944. About an Italian-American officer
in Sicily during WW2, who wins the respect and admiration of the people in the town of Adano by helping them
find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down to form rifle barrels. (hence the name)
• ernie pyle’s brave men a book compiling the articles that Ernie Pyle wrote from 1943 to 1944 when he followed
the American soldiers into the war, and served as a firsthand view for the American public on what the soldiers
went through during the war. Ernie Pyle is a Pulitzer award winning journalist
